Hawkins v. Burwell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
On June 18,1900, in vacation, Hon. W. G. Cochran, one of the judges of the sixth circuit, upon the application of the plaintiffs in error, in a cause in chancery then pending in the circuit court of Moultrie county, made an order for a preliminary injunction restraining defendant in error from sitting in the city council of the city of Sullivan as a member thereof, and from acting as an alderman of the third ward of said city, and from voting as a member of said council, and from taking any part in the proceedings of the council or standing committees thereof, until the further order of the…
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