Legal Opinion

Blair v. Faderer

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 27, 1915Published

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clay county; the Hon. J. C. McBride, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cooke

On June 9, 1914, J. R. Davis and J. D. Beal petitioned the commissioner of highways of the town of Blair, in the county of Clay, to lay out a road for private and public use along a specified route, which road, the petition alleged, would “connect a lot of land with a public highway” and would “connect the plantations of the petitioners herein with a public road.” The petition described the starting point of the proposed road as a certain point on the line between sections 19 and 20 in the town of Blair, and the route specified extended therefrom in an easterly direction a distance of one and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Wright v. Highway CommissionersIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  2. Funderburk v. SpenglerIllinois Supreme Court · 1908

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