State v. County Court

Snyder, President :

Writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wood county, pronounced January 25, 1890, in proceedings instituted in the name of the State at the relation and upon the petition of P. C. Boggs and others, for mandamus to compel the County Court of said county to repair and rebuild the bridge across the Little Kanawha river, at the foot of Market street of the city of Parkersburg in the said county. The material facts averred in the petition, and the exhibits filed therewith, are substantially as follows :

The petitioners are citizens and tax-payers of Wood county. In…