#### The People of the State of Illinois ex rel. C. S. Welch et al., plaintiff in error, v. Moultrie County, Illinois, et al., defendants in error.

Mandamus to compel adjoining county to appropriate money for the construction of a bridge over a county line stream. Special demurrer to petition sustained. Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. George A. Sentel, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1917.

Affirmed.

Opinion filed July 15, 1918.

Whitaker, Ward & Pugh, for plaintiff in error.

J. L. McLaughlin, J. K. Martin and Paul Heineke, for defendants in error.

Mr. Presiding Justice Eldredge

delivered the opinion of the court.