Questão jurídica principal
Whether the expropriation appeal was inadmissible because the owners had not submitted a valid written notice of their claims.
Decisão extraída
The objection was unfounded; the notice recorded in writing by the municipal clerk satisfied the statutory writing requirement and sufficiently identified the entitled owners.
Fundamentação extraída
The statute requires that the claim reach the company in written form, not that it be drafted personally by the claimants. If the authorized municipal officer reduces an oral notice to writing, the company cannot rely on that fact to invoke forfeiture.