Perley v. Heath

I. The action is by three resident taxpayers owning land abutting on, and in the vicinity of, a public road, to compel, by writ of mandamus, the defendants, the members of the board of supervisors of Harrison County, to construct a bridg’e at the point where the road is crossed by a drainage ditch.

The facts are not in dispute. The ditch was constructed, and no bridge has ever been erected where it intersects the highway. The ditch at the point in question is a hundred or more feet wide, and it is not disputed that, without a bridge, the road at that point is impassable. Less than a quarter of…