Winkler v. Winkler

This was a bill in chancery in the Woodford Circuit Court, exhibited by George Winkler against Christian Winkler, and the commissioners of highways of the town of Worth, in that county, to enjoin certain proceedings commenced by Christian Winkler before those commissioners, having for their object the appropriation of a portion of complainant’s land without his consent, to the purposes of a private way.

The bill of complaint alleged that Christian Winkler had presented a petition for this road, that the other defendants, the commissioners of highways, had received the petition and were…