People ex rel. Stine v. Board of Supervisors

The questions made on this record arise upon a demurrer to a return to an alternative writ of mandamus, sued out of this court, on the relation of Josiah W. Stine, against the Board of Supervisors of Vermilion county.

The object of the proceeding was, to compel the hoard of supervisors to levy a tax, sufficient in amount, as found by the commissioners of highways, and duly laid before the board of town auditors, of the town of Danville, to construct a bridge across the north fork of Vermilion river, on the east half of section seven, in township nineteen, north of range eleven west, near…