Stingley v. Owen
Stingley v. Owen
Opinion of the Court
Proceedings were begun before the board of commissioners of Montgomery county to have established in said county a free gravel road less than three miles in length. Such actions were taken before the commissioners as resulted in the order of said board establishing. the road, which order was duly entered)
■ Section 6021, supra, is as follows: “From any decision of such commissioners there shall be allowed an appeal to the circuit court by any person aggrieved; but if such person shall not be a party to the proceeding, such appeal shall not be allowed, unless he shall file, in the office of the county auditor, his affidavit, setting forth that he has an interest in the matter decided, and that he is aggrieved by such decision, alleging explicitly the nature of his interest.” That portion of §3, Acts 191-5, supra, which relates to appeals allowed under the gravel road law is as follows: “Provided, further, That any taxpayer of the county aggrieved by the action of said board, may appeal from its decision to the circuit court of said county within ten days in the same manner as other appeals are taken from the action of such board, and said cause shall by said court be tried de novo.”
It is further contended by appellants that -if they are not entitled to an appeal under §6021, supra, §123 of -'the gravel road law of 1905 (Acts 1905 p. 521, 579, §7793 Burns 1914), authorized an appeal within thirty days. Section 7793, supra, is as follows: “Except as
The same provision was carried into the original amendment of §70, by §1 of the act approved March 8, 1909, Acts 1909 p. 353, and also in the amendment of the amendatory section in 1913, §2, Acts 1913 p. 418. In the original act and in all subsequent legislation amendatory of that act the same provision as to appeal is carried forward. We are of the opinion that §70 of the original act and the acts amendatory thereof govern the appeal in this case, and the bond not having been filed within ten days from the final order of the board establishing the road a later filing would be too late to secure an appeal.
Note. — Reported in 115 N. E. 88.
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