People ex rel. Fox Howard & Co. v. City Council
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a Petition for Mandamus, upon which the alternative writ of mandamus was awarded according to the prayer of the petition. The facts alleged as the grounds for the writ, on the part of the relators, and the facts relied on as a defense, on the part of the respondents, as set forth in their return to the alternative- writ, are fully presented in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This is an application by Fox, Howard & Co., for a mandamus against the City Council of the City of Cairo, to compel them to pay a certain judgment obtained by the relators against them, rendered at the April term, 1868, of the Alexander Circuit Court, for the work and labor of relators in grading and filling certain streets and avenues in the city of Cairo.
The questions presented by this record arise on a demurrer to the return to an alternative writ of mandamus issued on the petition of Fox, Howard & Co., against the City Council of the City of Cairo.
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