Town of Centreville v. Deckard

Mr. Presiding Justice Culbertson

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of St. Clair county, directing a verdict in favor of appellees, John R. Deckard, Ed. Neumeyer, John A. Hill, Wilford Shorber, William Bochholt, Sam Bommareto, John Horn, Arthur Rohn, Nicola Bommareto and John Baumann (hereinafter called defendants), and as against appellant, Town of Centreville (hereinafter called plaintiff).

The action was originally commenced before a justice of the peace in the Town of Centreville, by the Town of Centreville, against ten individual…