Commissioners of Highways v. Gibson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tazewell county; the Hon. John Burns, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, P. J.
This was a proceeding instituted in the circuit court to compel by mandamus the commissioners of highways of the two towns of Washington and Fondnlae to re-build a bridge situate wholly within the territorial limits of the latter town. The pleadings consisted of the petition of appellee, the answers of the two towns, and a general replication, as in a cause in chancery. It is now objected that it was error to submit the case to a jury under this state of the pleadings, but as we are to decide it upon more substantial grounds, we deem it unimportant how the issues were made up. It may be…
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