People ex rel. Burow v. Block

The commissioners of highways of the towns of Dan-ville and Georgetown, in the county of Vermilion, filed in the circuit court of that county a. petition for mandamus against the drainage commissioners of the Sinking Hole Drainage District. The petition alleged that the drainage commissioners had, among other improvements in their district, constructed an open ditch across a public highway known as Kelly lane, on the town line between the towns of Danville and Georgetown, and had not provided any bridge or crossing over the ditch but had left an open space across the highway thirty feet wide…