Smith v. Commissioners of Highways

This was a common law writ of certiorari, issued by the Circuit Court of McLean county, to review certain proceedings in, relation to laying out a new road in Hudson township in that county. It appears from the return made by the commissioners of highways, and by the justice of the peace before whom the certificate of the determination of the commissioners to lay out the new road had been filed for the purpose of obtaining a jury for the assessment of damages, that a petition dated December 30,1892, asking that a new road of the width of fifty feet be laid out over a prescribed route between…