Evans v. Harper

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of Massac county, Illinois, awarding a writ of mandamus commanding the defendants, county commissioners of Massac county to cause warrants to be drawn on the county treasurer, properly indorsed and in favor of the plaintiffs for the several amounts found to be due them in accordance with the provisions of “An Act for the Relief of the Blind, approved May 11, 1903, as amended.”

The petition of the plaintiffs alleged that they were each blind and had been duly declared to be so by…