People Ex Rel. Commissioners of Big Lake Special Drainage District v. Dixon

On September 20, 1930, a petition for writ of mandamus was filed in the circuit court of Jackson county in the name of the People, on the relation of the commissioners of the Big Lake Special Drainage District in the county of Jackson and State of Illinois, and summons, returnable September 30, 1930, was ordered to issue against appellees, Robert Dixon, as highway commissioner of the town of Sand Ridge, in said county, and the county of Jackson. After their motions to dismiss the petition had been overruled appellees filed separate demurrers to the petition, and these demurrers were…