School Directors v. People ex rel. Roberts

This was a petition for a mandamus, on the part of the trustees of schools of T. 40, E. 13 E., in Cook county, to compel the appellants, the school directors of district 13, in the same township, to pay over to William G. Hazelton, the township treasurer of the township, the sum of §13,750, which the board of school directors had borrowed and received by the issuing and sale of bonds of the district, authorized by a vote of the people under section 47 of the general school law.

The answer of the school directors admits the borrowing and receiving by them of the money, as alleged in the…