Hall v. People ex rel. Rogers

This was a petition for a writ of mandamus, on the relation of James H. Rogers and Thomas Shaw, in the Circuit Court of Peoria County, against Thomas C. Hall, Noah Marshall, and Henry Shaw, commissioners of highways of the township of Radnor, to compel them to take the necessary steps, under the law, to open a certain highway, which it is alleged had been previously laid out by a former board of commissioners of said township.

The petition recites at length, all the proceedings had by the commissioners of highways in laying out the road in question, from the presentation of the petition for…