Court Opinion

ID: 9575470
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:14:08.090884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:48:13.690097
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Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. The law requires notice giving the day and the hour when the hearing will be had. This notice and no other will satisfy the plain requirement of the law. Since notice as required by law is essential to give the commissioners jurisdiction, any action taken by the commissioners adversely affecting the property of the petitioners was void for want of jurisdiction and was a denial of due process in violation of both the State and Federal Constitutions. For the foregoing reasons I dissent from division 1 and the corresponding headnote and from the judgment of affirmance. I am authorized by Presiding Justice Atkinson and Associate Justice Hawkins to say that they concur in this dissent.