Commissioners of Highways v. Newell

This was a bill filed in the Knox circuit court, to restrain the road commissioners of Chestnut township from erecting the piers and making the approaches for a bridge on Spoon river, then being built, and from incurring any liability by the town therefor. The bill alleges that the supervisor of the town had petitioned the board of supervisors of the county for aid in constructing a bridge in that town, at Bridgeport, and that the board of supervisors had agreed to build an iron bridge, if the town and individuals interested would construct the piers and approaches for the same; that the cost…