People ex rel. School District No. 153 v. Wickham

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court of Cook County granting a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, as supervisor of the town of Bloom, to ratably distribute $125,000 of the general town fund to the several petitioner school districts maintaining grades 1 through 8 located wholly or partly within the town.

A special meeting of the electors of the town was held, pursuant to a proper notice, for the stated purpose of considering the distribution of that portion of the general town fund in excess of the amount needed for township purposes to such elementary…