People ex rel. Kerrick v. Commissioners of Highways

Thomas C. Kerrick, plaintiff in error, filed his petition in the circuit court of Ford county for a writ of mandamus commanding the commissioners of highways of Sullivant township, defendants in error, to reduce the width of a public road one mile in length and fifty feet in width between sections 24 and 25, in Sullivant township, to a width of forty feet, in accordance with the prayer of a petition presented to them and signed by the owners of the land along the line of the road and which they had rejected. The defendants answered, and by paragraph 1 admitted the filing of the petition but…