People ex rel. Brown v. Jones

The circuit court of Edgar county sustained a demurrer to the appellants’ plea to an information in the nature of a qito warranto charging them with usurping the offices of directors of a school district, and, upon their election to stand by their plea, entered judgment of ouster against them, from which they appealed.

Prior to April, 1911, there were in Edgar county, in township 14, north, range 13, west, two school districts,— No. 74, composed of sections 9, 10, 15 and 16, and No. 80, adjoining No. 74 on the south, composed of sections 21, 22, 27 and 28. More than twenty days before the…