Eyman v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was heard in the Court helo-w at the September term 1841, before the Hon. Sidney Breese and a jury. The plaintiffs in error were fined $10, each, and costs of suit.
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court was delivered by
Douglass, J.*
At the September term of the St. Clair Circuit Court, Jacob Eyman, Eldridge G. Potter, and James Glass were convicted of palpable omission of duty in office as County Commissioners of St. Clair county, in having neglected and refused to cause a certain bridge to be repaired, by ordering the supervisor of the proper district to hire laborers and teams for that purpose, or by making a contract with some fit person after notice that the supervisor had called out all persons bound to perform road labor in his district, and that said persons…
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