State ex rel. Piercey v. Steffen

This is a mandamus suit against a county board of supervisors to compel maintenance of a road. The district court ultimately refused the peremptory writ and relators appealed.

The petition, filed on June 25, 1927, alleged that a certain described road had for several years been designated and maintained, under the provisions of what is now section 39-227, Comp. St. 1929, as a part of the highway system of Seward county. The road was alleged to be a “county road, having been designated as a part of the *40county highway system and said road being a direct highway leading to and from a rural school…