People Ex Rel. McDowell v. Department of Public Works & Buildings

A petition on the relation of E. M. McDowell, Luther Walters, Charles M. Wagner, B. H. Evans and Edwin McDowell, as citizens, residents, land owners and tax-payers of Harrison, in Jackson county, was brought in the circuit court of Sangamon county against the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State, Cornelius R. Miller, as the director of the department, and' Frank T. Sheets, as State superintendent of highways. The prayer of the petition was for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to locate and construct a durable, hard-surfaced road upon the public highway running…