Shields v. Ross
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. Thomas M. Shaw, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
In the matter of this appeal, James Shields, Joseph E. Hindert and Folkert Danakas, commissioners of highways of the town of Minonk, are appellants, and Jane Rose Ross and Harriet G. Ames are appellees. Said Ross and said Ames are two of the heirs-at-law of the late Miner T. Ames, now deceased, and each of them inherited from him an undivided one-fifth of certain mining property at Minonk. The property consists of a coal mine with about two thousand acres of unmined coal adjoining and adjacent to the shaft, about eighty houses for the use of the miners, and numerous other buildings connected…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People ex rel. Greenwood v. Board of SupervisorsIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Town of Ottawa v. WalkerIllinois Supreme Court · 1859
- Earll v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- Town of Princeton v. TempletonIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
- Dumoss v. FrancisIllinois Supreme Court · 1854
3Cited by6 opinions
- Cox v. Commissioners of HighwaysIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
- Falter v. PackardIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
- Board of Commissioners v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1911
- Gascho v. SohlIndiana Supreme Court · 1900
- Town of Centreville v. DeckardAppellate Court of Illinois · 1944
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