Fletcher v. Tuttle
Illinois Supreme Court
The first case, an appeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion County, the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding; and the latter case, an appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion Per Curiam :
The first of these cases was a bill in chancery, exhibited by James P. Fletcher in the Circuit Court of Vermilion county, praying that an act of the General Assembly, entitled, “An act to apportion the State of Illinois into senatorial districts, and to repeal certain acts therein named,” approved June 15, 1893, be declared unconstitutional and void, and that a writ of injunction issue to Walter C. Tuttle, county clerk of Vermilion county, restraining him from issuing, or causing to be posted, notices of election, calling an election for members of the House of…
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