Illinois Supreme Court June 15, 1876 (St. Clair County Turnpike Co. v. People ex rel. Bowman)

Mr. Justice Soholeield

delivered the opinion of the Court:

In the view we take of this case, it will only be necessary to inquire whether the amendment to appellant’s charter, of February 16, 1861, authorized it to maintain a toll-gate across the Bloody Island dyke, until the State should elect to purchase its road, as provided for by the 13th section of its original charter, or did the right