Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Commissioners of Highways v. Board of Supervisors
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided August 1, 1905No. Gen. No. 4,508PublishedCited by 6 opinions
Mandamus proceeding. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside County; the Hon. Emery C. Graves, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1905.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Presiding Justice Vickers
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Whiteside County sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing a petition for mandamus. The sufficiency of the petition is the only question presented. We adopt the following statement of the allegation of the petition from the opinion of the learned judge who tried the case below:
“ The petition in the case shows that the commissioners of the town of Sterling in 1903 decided that a bridge across Rock River, connecting the public highway in the town of Sterling, leading from…
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