People ex rel. Stewart v. Highway Commissioners of the Town of Anchor

Appellants, Daniel B. Stewart, Mary Stewart, Arthur D. Stewart and Clinton B. Stewart, filed their petition in the circuit court of McLean county to compel the commissioners of highways of the town of Anchor, appellees, to reduce the width of the public highway from sixty feet to forty feet between sections 4 and 5 in the town of Anchor, in the said county, as prayed for by them in their petition to appellees, which petition had b.een rejected. Appellants averred in their petition for mandamus that their petition to appellees was in due form of law and was signed by appellants, who were then,…