Coffman v. Commissioners of Highways
Appellate Court of Illinois
Proceedings to Open a Higliway.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County; the Hon. John A. Gray, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Crabtree
A petition was presented to the appellees to lay out a highway on the line between the two townships of which they were respectively the commissioners of highways. They refused the petition, whereupon one John C. Burlchalter took an appeal to three supervisors, in pursuance of the statute.
The supervisors determined to lay out the road and caused a jury to be impaneled to assess the damages. The road, as laid out, would run for over a mile on appellant’s land; the jury allowed him $246.90', and the supervisors thereupon made an order laying out the road, the justice of the peace having entered…
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