People Ex Rel. L. O. Alexander v. City of Mt. Vernon

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson County denying a petition for writ of mandamus. The petition was filed in the name of the People, on the relation of L. O. Alexander and more than one hundred other residents of the city of Mt. Vernon, who are the appellants here. It sought to compel the city of Mt. Vernon, its mayor and council, and the Pressed Steel Car Company, Inc., appellees here, to remove certain obstructions placed by the car company across and upon a portion of Shawnee Street, in Mt. Vernon.

Prior to the recent war, Shawnee Street was a public street…