People ex rel. School Directors v. Allen

This is a proceeding in the nature of a quo warranto, questioning the right of each of the defendants to hold the office of school director. The amended information, upon which the hearing below was had, is by the State’s attorney of Champaign county, on the relation of certain alleged school directors of districts numbered 4, 7 and 8, in the counties of Champaign and Vermilion. It avers that prior to the first day of April, 1893, relators had been lawfully elected, and were then severally exercising the duties of boards of directors in said districts, No. 4 including all of sections 27, 28,…