People ex rel. Commissioners of Highways v. Board of Supervisors

This was a petition filed in the circuit court of Cumberland county in the name of the People, upon the relation of commissioners of highways of the town of Cottonwood, in said county, against the board of supervisors of said county, for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondents to appropriate one-half of the amount necessary to pay the cost of constructing two bridges in the town of Cottonwood. A demurrer was interposed to the petition and sustained, and the relators electing to stand by their petition, a judgment was entered dismissing the petition at the relators’ cost, which judgment…