Brown v. Robertson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The record sought to he quashed upon this certiorari is that of the commissioners of highways of the town of Centralia, in Marion county, vacating and re-locating a portion of a certain highway therein described.
We are only at liberty to consider, upon this record, jurisdictional questions. For errors not of a jurisdictional character, ample remedy is presumably afforded by appeal. Hyslop et al. v. Finch, 99 Ill. 171.
The' commissioners of highways considered the questions presented to them by the petition, and made their decision thereon, on the 17th of July, 1885, and on that or the next-day…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. LoebIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
- Stetson v. Chicago & Evanston RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
- Hyslop v. FinchIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
- Lee v. Town of Mound StationIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Brown v. City of JolietIllinois Supreme Court · 1859
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