Caldwell v. Moffatt
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Tazewell county; the Hon. John M. Niehaus, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Eldredge
A. C. Caldwell, appellant, filed his.bill in equity in the Circuit Court of Tazewell county to restrain appellees as highway commissioners of the Town of Groverland in said county from laying out and opening a public road therein. Upon a hearing the court entered a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity, to reverse which this appeal is taken.
On July 3, 1916, a petition was presented to the highway commissioners signed by eighteen landowners residing in said town within 2 miles of the proposed road, requesting that said road he laid out and opened for public use. Such proceedings were…
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