Matthiessen v. Ott
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Joe A. Davis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1914. Certiorari allowed by Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
' This was a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari filed by F. W. Matthiessen to review the action of the Highway Commissioners of Deer Park in La Salle county, in a proceeding to lay out a public and private road on the petition of Julia A. Clayton, Charles S. Clayton and Glennie Piercy, the appellants.
The petition for the road was presented to the highway commissioners June 7, 1909, under the Boads and Bridges Act then in force, and the section thereof entitled “Private Boads” (J. & A. 9681). The commissioners, without…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- People ex rel. Kidd v. CrowleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1911
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- People ex rel. Solon v. LowerIllinois Supreme Court · 1912