Nichols v. School Directors
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was a bill for an injunction by complainant as a citizen, tax-payer and. freeholder of the school district of which defendants were directors, to restrain them from .allowing the school house of that district to be used by any society or organization for the purpose of a religious meeting house.
The grievance as set forth in the bill is, that the defendants have, as such directors, given permission to different church organizations to hold religious services in the school house, against the protest of complainant and other tax-payers of the district; that under this permission some of the…
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