People ex rel. Harrington v. Wands

The Chief Justice:

— These cases have sometimes been heard upon the facts stated in the papers, as upon a hearing in chancery upon bill and answer. But we suppose that when a demurrer is formally made, the party demurring has the affirmative.

Graves, J.

This is a petition for a mandamus, but the final purpose of the application is to settle an unhappy controversy which has grown out of movements to change and re-locate the county seat of St. Clair county. It appears that for about fifty years the seat had continued at St. Clair, when, and in October, 1869, the board of supervisors submitted to…