Ross v. People ex rel. Demlow

At the April, 1907, term of the Circuit Court of Champaign county the state’s attorney upon the relation of appellees, Demlow and Holl, filed a petition for mandamus against the appellants as commissioners of highways of the towns of Tolono and Colfax, in Champaign county, to compel them to lay out and open a road on the township lines between said townships, to pay the damages occasioned by the laying out of the road and the costs occasioned by the appeal of the relators, Demlow and Holl, to the supervisors from an order refusing to grant the road made by the appellants as highway…