Barth v. Clay Township

Plaintiff instituted a mandamus proceeding in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Missouri, against Clay township and certain individuals who had served on the township board and two defendants who had been road overseers, to compel them to replace five culverts in a public road which had been removed by the road overseers at the direction of the township board. The trial court entered a decree against the township and the defendants who had served on the board to replace four of the culverts. No decree was entered against the road overseers. The township and the defendants against whom the…