Commissioners of Highways v. Baumgarten

This was a bill in chancery exhibited in the Stephenson Circuit Court, by Charles Baumgarten, against the commissioners of highways of the town of Lancaster, and the city of Freeport, both in that county, to compel them to pay for building a bridge across the Pecatonica river, a stream dividing that city from the town of Lancaster.

It appears that appellee had contracted with appellants, and the city of Freeport, to build this bridge according to certain specifications' set forth in the contract, to be built entirely at the expense of the appellants and the city, and under the supervision of…