Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Road District No. 5 v. Cache River Drainage District

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 21, 1920No. 13200Published

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pulaski county; the Hon. D. T. Hartwell, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam :

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Pulaski county sustaining a demurrer to pleas to a petition for a writ of mandamus and awarding the writ. The petition was filed on the relation of a number of owners of land in Pulaski county near a public highway which was crossed by one of the ditches of the Cache River Drainage District, to compel the drainage commissioners to construct and maintain a bridge across said ditch where it intersects the highway. The drainage commissioners filed pleas to the petition, to all of which the court sustained a demurrer, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Commissioners of Highways v. Drainage Commissioners of District No. 2Illinois Supreme Court · 1912

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