Hall v. Kincaid
Decision Date | 15 March 1917 |
Docket Number | No. 9537.,9537. |
Parties | HALL et al. v. KINCAID et al. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Warrick County; Ralph E. Roberts, Judge.
Petition by J. Fred Hall and others for removal of county seat of Spencer county under Burns' Ann. St. 1914, § 5849, opposed by Frank Kincaid and others. Petition dismissed by board of commissioners, and petitioners appealed to circuit court, where petition was dismissed on the record, and petitioners appeal. Judgment modified with respect to costs; otherwise affirmed.Tracewell & Tracewell and Frank C. Gore, all of Evansville, for appellants. Swan & Mason, Louis N. Savage, Wm. H. Brown, Allen J. Payton, and B. F. Huffman, all of Rockport, for appellees.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Act approved July 18, 1885, being section 5849 et seq., Burns 1914, J. Fred Hall and others filed with the board of commissioners of Spencer county their petition for the removal of the county seat from Rockport to Chrisney. The petitioners complied with, and their petition conformed to, the requirements of said act. The petition was signed by 2,103 persons, being more than 40 per cent. of the whole number of legal voters in said county. Four hundred and ten of said petitioners filed their withdrawal from said petition and were permitted to withdraw therefrom by the order of the board. On the 3d day of May, 1915, the board being in regular session, the following proceedings took place:
The city of Rockport and Frank Kincaid, a resident, a taxpayer, and legal voter in said county, filed their separate motions to dismiss the petition, which motions were overruled. Said city and seven persons filed their separate demurrer to said petition, which demurrer was overruled. Said city and seven persons filed their verified remonstrance against the petition and proceedings, and against the granting of said petition and the removal of the county seat. The petitioners demurred to the remonstrance, which demurrer was sustained. The remonstrators filed answer in denial. Thereupon the board made the following finding and order:
The auditor notified the Governor of the action of the board, and thereupon the Governor appointed Hon. Inman H. Fowler, of Owen county, Hon. Wm. H. Vollmor, of Knox county, and Hon. Benj. F. Adams, of Monroe county, three disinterested persons, nonresidentsof Spencer county, as commissioners to examine the real estate of the county seat of Spencer county and assess the value thereof, including the buildings and improvements thereon situate, as provided by section 5849, Burns' Revised Statutes 1914, and to perform all and singular the duties as such commissioners as provided by law. The auditor gave due notice of the appointment of said commissioners and that they would meet in the courtroom of the county courthouse in the city of Rockport, in Spencer county, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 1915, and would then and there proceed to perform all and singular their duties as such commissioners. At the time and place fixed in said notice the said appraisers appeared and were duly sworn to faithfully, impartially, and honestly examine and appraise the real estate belonging to Spencer county, Ind., and the buildings and improvements thereon situate, being in the city of Rockport, and assess the value thereof according to their best judgment. The petitioners and the objectors and their respective counsel appeared before said appraisers. The appraisers made an examination of said real estate and the buildings thereon. A shorthand reporter was employed and a hearing was given. Witnesses were examined by and in behalf of both the objectors and the petitioners as to the value of the real estate and the improvements thereon. After all the evidence had been taken and counsel had the opportunity of being heard, the said appraisers assessed the value of the real estate and the improvements thereon, and one copy of the appraisement was filed with the auditor of Spencer county, and the other copy was transmitted by mail to the Governor of said state. The valuation so fixed is as follows: Real estate, $28,120; courthouse, $17,000; sheriff's residence, jail, and barn, $7,000; other buildings, $3,650-total, $55,770.
On the 7th day of June, 1915, the petitioners and their attorneys appeared before the board and excepted and objected to the report of the appraisers and asked for a reappraisement of said property, which request was denied. Thereupon the board made the following finding and judgment:
The petitioners then prayed an appeal to the Spencer circuit court, which was granted on the filing of the required bond.
A transcript of the proceedings before the board was duly filed in the circuit court of Spencer county by the county auditor. A change of venue was granted, and the proceeding transferred to the circuit court of Warrick county. In the latter court the petitioners and remonstrators appeared. A large number of petitioners were permitted to withdraw; those withdrawals being in addition to the withdrawals before the board. Various other steps were taken, among which was the filing of a motion by the remonstrators for judgment in their favor on the record. This motion was sustained, and thereupon the court made the following finding and rendered the following judgment:
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