Hosier v. Higgins Township Board

Delator asks a mandamus to compel the respondents to raise a tax to pay certain highway orders. One of them amounting to $100 and numbered 825 is not disputed. The rest were issued by the highway commissioners to pay for a bridge across the An Sable river on the line of what is claimed to have been a highway. The answer of the respondents denied that there was any legal authority to build this bridge on the credit of the township, and on an issue framed upon this point no proof was apparently given, and no finding was had of any such authority, unless inherent in the office.

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