People ex relatione Roberts v. Rives
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a petition for mandamus in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on relation of George W. Roberts, against George W. Rives, clerk of the Edgar County Court, filed at the May term, 1861, of the Circuit Court of said county.
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This was a petition for mandamus in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on relation of George W. Roberts, against George W. Rives, clerk of the Edgar County Court, filed at the May term, 1861, of the Circuit Court of said county. The petition sets out, that at the regular township election for Paris township, in Edgar county, held at the courthouse, in the town of Paris, pursuant to notice duly given, and in accordance with all the requirements of the statute in such cases provided, for the election of justices of the peace, and other township officers of said township of Paris,…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
The town meeting at the court-house was convened in pursuance of the notice, and in the place specified therein, and was organized strictly in pursuance of the provisions of the law, and beyond all doubt the business transacted at that meeting was legal and binding upon the town; and the election there held was valid. The meeting subsequently organized has not the least semblance of legality about it. It was at a place different from that mentioned in the notice, and after the regular meeting was organized, and more than forty votes cast. Indeed, it has the appearance of a secession from the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Akin v. MattesonIllinois Supreme Court · 1855
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