Board of Supervisors v. People ex rel. Commissioners of Highways

This appeal brings before us for review a judgment of the circuit court of Will county, awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus, commanding the board of supervisors of said county to cause to be levied and collected, upon the taxable property of the county, a tax sufficient to realize therefrom the sum of $9088.50, to aid the commissioners of highways of the town of Wilmington, in said county, to build an iron bridge across Kankakee river, in the city of Wilmington, in said town, said sum being one-half of the estimated cost of said bridge. The petition is in due form, and clearly brings the…