Evans v. Sharkey County’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Where the appeal under this section is simply for the purpose of having a jury assess the damage, this being a question of fact, it is not necessary for a bill of exceptions to be presented and signed. It is necessary to file a bill of exceptions, as provided in sec. 3896, only when it is desired to review some matter of law arising on the face of the proceedings; that is to say, when the question involved is whether or not a board of supervisors has proceeded to lay out, alter, or change any public road and asess [sic] damage therefor, in accordance with the procedure required by law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 592 So. 2d 525 - McIntosh v. Amacker