People ex rel. Burdick v. Board of Education
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Benjamin R Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for quo warranto by Charles E. Jennings, State’s attorney for Marion county, upon the relation of S. G. Burdick, superintendent of schools in said county, alleging that, on April 1, 1869, a board of education in the city of Centralia in said county was organized under a special act of the legislature, and thereafter until April 15, 1893, controlled and managed…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Benjamin R Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for quo warranto by Charles E. Jennings, State’s attorney for Marion county, upon the relation of S. G. Burdick, superintendent of schools in said county, alleging that, on April 1, 1869, a board of education in the city of Centralia in said county was organized under a special act of the legislature, and thereafter until April 15, 1893, controlled and managed the free schools in said city under the authority granted by said act; that, on February 15, 1893, said city, having a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice
Magruder delivered the opinion of the court:
Prior to April 15, 1893, the free schools in the city of Centralia were managed and controlled by a board of education, consisting of five members, elected under and governed by the provisions of a special act of the legislature, entitled “An act to establish and regulate a system of public schools in the city of Centralia,” approved April 1, 1869. (3 Private Laws of Ill. p. 409). That act provided, that the board of education should appoint a treasurer to hold office for one year and until his successor should be elected and…
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