People ex rel. Morris v. Opie

This appeal is from a judgment of ouster rendered in quo zvarranto against appellants April 29, 1921. The information filed charged appellants with usurping the office of members of the board of education of Community High .School District No. 201, in Peoria coünty. Appellants filed a plea of justification, to which a demurrer was sustained, and appellants elected to stand by their plea.

Appellees contended that the plea was bad for the following reasons: (1) The petition to the county superintendent of schools was not signed by fifty legal voters, as required by section 89a of the School law,…