Legal Opinion

O'Connor v. Evanston High School District

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 21, 1918No. 12102PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Writ or Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse A. Baldwin, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright

The plaintiffs in error filed two bills in the circuit court of Cook county attacking by each bill two elections held in Evanston High School District,—one held on November 6, 1915, and the other on December 11, 1915,—involving in the elections the choice of a site for a school and the issue of bonds to purchase the site and build the school building. The prayer of the bills was identical so far as declaring the elections null and void and restraining the board of education from preparing or negotiating bonds or using the proceeds of any tax for the purchase of the site was concerned, but the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Kiehna v. ManskerIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
  2. O'Connor v. High School Board of Education of Evanston High School DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1917

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Bouldin v. City of HomewoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
  2. O'Connor v. High School Board of EducationIllinois Supreme Court · 1919
  3. Wakefield v. Town of Carbon HillSupreme Court of Alabama · 1926
  4. Bouldin v. City of HomewoodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965

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