People ex rel. Smith v. Ricker

This was an information in-the nature <5f a quo warranto, brought by the state’s attorney of Champaign county, on the relation of J. M. Smith, T. S. Dougan and J. N. Smith, against N. Clifford Bicker and six others, charging that the defendants, without warrant, right or title, had usurped and were holding and exercising the office of school directors, or board of education, of school district number 3, in township 19, north, of range 9, east of the 3d principal meridian, in said county.

Prior to October 11, 1890, said township was, and for many years had been, subdivided into school…