Board of Supervisors v. Magoon

Appellee sued out a common law writ of certiorari, to bring before the court the record of the proceedings of the road commissioners of Scoles Mound township, in Jo Daviess county, and of three supervisors, refusing to alter a road in that township. On the application and petition for its alteration, the road commissioners refused to grant the prayer of the petition, and the case was appealed to three supervisors, who, after hearing the evidence for and against, on a protracted trial, lasting a number of days, affirmed the decision of the road commissioners, and to vacate and quash these…