Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. v. Sugar Loaf Township

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cunningham, J.:

It is provided in article 12, chapter 110, of the General Statutes of 1901 ( §§ 7822-7829), that the township trustee, clerk and treasurer of each municipal township in the state shall constitute a board of commissioners of highways in their respective townships, and to this board is committed the care of *164the roads and bridges in their townships, and it is made the duty of the board to keep the same in repair, and to improve them so far as is practicable. It is further made their duty (§7826) that “whenever the available means at their…