People ex rel. Kurtz v. Meyer

The appeal taken in this case was transferred by the Supreme Court to this court. (People ex rel. Sibert Kurtz v. Meyer, 328 Ill. 122.) And the facts involved in this controversy are summarized in the opinion of the court transferring the case:

1 ‘ Sibert Kurtz, commissioner of highways of Cincinnati township, Pike county, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois upon his relation, filed his petition in the circuit court of Pike county for a writ of mandamus against appellants. The petitioner alleged his official position, the organization of Sny Island Levee Drainage District under…