170 Ind. 113 | Ind. | 1908
Appellees instituted this proceeding before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Boone to locate a highway having for its median line the line dividing the counties of Marion and Boone. The highway was established by the board, and appellants appealed to the circuit court, where the result was als'o adverse to them.
In Middlesex, etc., Traction Co. v. Metlar (1903), 70 N. J.
The act of 1852 (1 R. S. 1852, p. 307, §6726 et seq. Bums 1901) was for many years the only legislation which could be said to give any sanction to the location of county-line highways. Section one of that act, relative to highways in more than one county, referred to highways as “running into more than one county,” while the proviso of said section referred to the vacation or change of highways so opened, which “extend into more than one county.” The language of the act last referred to is, on the whole, really narrower than the present act, and yet it is a fact of such common knowledge that it may be judicially assumed to exist, that under said former act many county-line highways were built.
The act of 1905, supra, is a comprehensive enactment relative to the location of highways, and in view of this, as well as of the language of section 123 thereof, it would be difficult to resist the conclusion that for most purposes at least it was designed to furnish the governing rale of procedure concerning the location of .highways. In view of the practical construction given to the act of 1852, wherein, as shown, the same word “extend” is found, and of the fact that the General Assembly was attempting by the later act to enact
Judgment affirmed.