Wright v. Highway Commissioners
Illinois Supreme Court
Weit of Ebboe to the Circuit Court of Greene county; the Hon. Geoege W. Heedman, Juclge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
' This was a petition for a common law writ of certiorari, in the circuit court of Greene county, to review the action of the highway commissioners of the town of Carrollton, in said county, in ordering the laying out and location of a road for private and public use, under the provisions of section 54, chapter 121, of the Revised Statutes, (2 Starr & Curtis, 2153,) and to set the same aside.
No question arises as to the jurisdiction of the highway commissioners, hut the objections to the validity of their action in laying out the road relate to errors intervening in the proceedings. The…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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