Board of Supervisors v. People ex rel. Commissioners of Highways

This was a petition for a mandamus by the people on the relation of the Commissioner of Highways of the town of Bockville against the Board of Supervisors of Kankakee County to compel them to make an appropriation from the county treasury, under the provisions of section 19 of the act in force July 1,1883, in “ regard to roads and bridges in counties under township organization ” of a sum sufficient to meet one-lialf the expense of a bridge to be constructed over Forked Creek, where the same is crossed by the public highway between section 5 and section 8 in said town. The Circuit Court, on…