County of St. Clair v. People ex rel. Keller

Hr. Justice Walker

delivered the opinion of the Court;

This was a petition for a writ of mandamus, filed by the People of the State, on the relation of Philip Keller, against the board of commissioners of St. Clair county, to compel them to erect a bridge over Kaskaskia river, at the town of Kew Athens, in that county.

It is alleged, that the road from Golconda, by the way of Pinckneyville to Belleville, crosses the river at that place; that it is a State road; that the river at that point is 225 feet wide; that the increasing population and business of that vicinity render it necessary to…