State Ex Rel. Tummons v. Cox

WALKER, J. —

This is a proceeding in certiorari to' quash the record of the Springfield Court of Appeals in the suit of G. L. Tummons et al. v. John R. Stokes et al. The relators' here had filed a petition in the County Court of Polk County to vacate a. portion of a public road. A remonstrance was filed against the proposed vacation.

The case was tried by the county court and the portion of the road in question was ordered vacated. The remonstrators thereupon appealed to the circuit court which, upon a hearing de novo, also ordered the road vacated as prayed for by the petitioners. The…