In re Town of Lisbon Election

The plaintiffs, five registered voters of the Township of Lisbon, appeal from the order of the trial court which dismissed their petition contesting the action of the township canvassing board and upheld that board’s determination that an election proposition had failed.

In 1939 there was an election under section 2 of article IX of “An Act relating to alcoholic liquors” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, ch. 43, par. 167) to determine whether the sale of liquor should be prohibited in the unincorporated areas of Lisbon Township. The proposition submitted to the voters was:

“Shall the sale at retail of…