City of Beardstown v. City of Virginia
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cass county; the Hon. Lyman Lacey, Judge, presiding. This was =a contest of an election, by bill in chancery, between the cities of Beardstown and Virginia, respecting the removal of the county seat. The case was submitted, and decided by this court at the January term, 1875, and is reported in 76 Ill. 34, where the facts are more fully stated. A rehearing having been granted, the following opinion was filed.
1Per curiam
A rehearing was granted in this case, and a re-argument has been had. We have reviewed the legal questions involved in our former decision, after the further discussion of them in the additional and able arguments with which we have been favored.
Upon full consideration, we have to say, that the majority of the court find no sufficient reason to depart from the legal conclusions which we before reached, and we still adhere to them.
This, however, with one exception. By our former decision, it was held that the court below rightly refused to count, in favor of appellants, the votes of ten…
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