Bell v. South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District

This direct appeal presents the single question whether votes cast at a referendum election under the Mosquito Abatement Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap, 111 1/2, pars. 74-85,) may be canvassed by a statutory election contest in the circuit court under the Illinois Election Code. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 46, par. 23-24.) On the authority on' Heaney v. Northeast Park District, 360 Ill. 254, which cannot be distinguished in principle from the instant case and which we decline to overrule, we answer this question in the negative and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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