Section 89-13-5 - Enforcement of contribution; notice and proceedings

The opposite party shall have five (5) days' notice of the time of the meeting of the freeholders, which may be served as a summons is required to be, and each party may introduce evidence of the value of the fence; and the freeholders, or a majority of them, may assess the amount to be paid by the one party to the other, and shall give to the party entitled to the compensation a certificate stating the amount they assess in his favor.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 12, art. 6 (4); 1857, ch. 16, art. 3; 1871, § 1909; 1880, § 972; 1892, § 3128; 1906, § 3551; Hemingway's 1917, § 2868; 1930, § 5678; 1942, § 991.