Legal Opinion

People v. Brown

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 18, 1901PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren county; the Hon. G. W. Thompson, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand

This is an information in the nature of a quo ivarranto, charging appelleestwith usurping and wrongfully exercising the franchise of a township high school district, and with usurping and wrongfully holding and exercising the office of members of the township board of education in township 9, north, range 2, west, Warren county. The appellees filed a plea averring that Warren county had adopted township organization; that the boundaries of the town’of Roseville and township 9, north, range 2, west, Warren county, coincide and are identical; that on the first Tuesday of April, 1900, at a…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Dale v. IrwinIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  2. Village of Ridgway v. County of GallatinIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
  3. Steele v. CalhounMississippi Supreme Court · 1884
  4. People ex rel. State's Attorney v. CowdenIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
  5. Simons v. People ex rel. DunningIllinois Supreme Court · 1886

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Agnew v. GrahamIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
  2. People ex rel. Board of School Inspectors v. MottingerIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  3. Hysler v. Springfield School District No. 186Illinois Supreme Court · 1916
  4. People ex rel. Theis v. MichaelsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1911
  5. Heydecker v. PriceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1907

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