People ex rel. Road District No. 12 v. Cache River Drainage District

This is a mandamus suit brought in the name of the People of the State of Illinois on relation of Road District No. 12 to compel the Cache River Drainage District to repair a bridge across one of the ditches of the drainage district located within said road district known as the “Hackberry Ditch,” which crosses a north and south public road at a point south of and along the right of way of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.

Extending from the bridge north across the railroad there is a slight elevation of land for a distance of about 300 feet. When the railroad was built in…