Commissioners of Sumter County v. McMath

McMath and others, citizens of Sumter county, applied to the judge of the superior courts of the Southwestern circuit, under the provisions of the Civil Code, § 5441, for a mandamus against the commissioners of roads and revenues of that county, to compel them to have a designated public road of the county worked and repaired, so as to bring it up to that standard now required by existing laws of this State, as embodied in the Civil Code, §§ 632, 633, 654, and so that ordinary loads, with ordinary ease and facility, could be continuously hauled over such road. The answer of the defendants…