People ex rel. Wilson v. Mottinger

Mr. Chiee Justice Ricks

announced the opinion of the court:

This is a motion for leave to file a petition for mandamus, directed to the county cleric of Will county and to two justices of the peace who, it seems, served with said clerk as canvassers of certain election returns.

The petitioner was a candidate in the district composed of DuPage and Will counties, and it is alleged in the petition that in one of the districts in Will county the returns as brought to the county clerk showed some 240 votes for the petitioner, Wilson, and that after the said returns had been brought to the clerk’s…