Cutler v. Sours
Appellate Court of Illinois
Certiorari, to quash proceedings of supervisors in highway matters. Trial in the Circuit Court of Coles County; the Hon. Frank K. Dunn, Judge, presiding. Judgment for petitioner; appeal by respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Burroughs
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a common law writ of certiorari in the Circuit Court of Coles County, issued on the petition of the appellees against the appellant and two others, supervisors of Coles county, requiring them to send up the record of a certain proceeding in regard to the laying out of a highway in the town of Lafayette, in that county, and asking the court to quash the order of those supervisors, made on March 28, 1898, in the proceedings regarding the said highway.
The petition for the writ of certiorari alleges that a valid petition…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ravatte v. RaceIllinois Supreme Court · 1894