Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — For Obstructing the Highway. [ARTICLE]

For Obstructing the Highway.

Constable Yick arrested Emmet Wills at the firm of A. Wills & Co., erf Pittfield, 111., who have the contract for cutting a dredge in Gilliam tp., for tearing oat a bridge and refusing to replace same. The warrant was sworn out by Trustee Prevo. Defendant {dead not guilty of obstructing highway, waived examination and was bound over under S2OO bonds to the circuit court. He gave bond. Wills claims, we understand, that he notified the trustee to remove the bridge to let the dredge through, that this was the trustee’s work and not his, that the said trustee refused to remove said bridge or to replace same after Wills had removed it to pass the dredge through. The decision will fix the responsibility in such cases.