People ex rel. Earley v. Bierman

The State’s attorney of Sangamon county filed in the circuit court thereof, at the relation of Frank E. Earley, a petition for leave to file an information in the nature of quo warranto to oust appellee from the office of police magistrate in and for the city of Springfield.

It is charged, in substance, in the petition that the city of Springfield, Illinois, had prior to April 5, 1927, adopted the commission form of government; that at the general election held on April 5, 1927, for the election of the mayor and "commissioners there was also to be elected a police magistrate in and for said…