People ex rel. Delaney v. Markiewicz
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. The Attorney General of Illinois, at the relation of certain electors of the town of Lemont, in Cook county, filed an information in the nature of quo warranto in the circuit court of that county challenging the right of Peter Markiewicz to the office of commissioner of highways in said town.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honors, Judge, presiding. The Attorney General of Illinois, at the relation of certain electors of the town of Lemont, in Cook county, filed an information in the nature of quo warranto in the circuit court of that county challenging the right of Peter Markiewicz to the office of commissioner of highways in said town. It appears from the pleadings and from the stipulation of facts on which the case was submitted to the court for trial, jury being…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
On the facts stated was appellee eligible to the office of commissioner of highways of the town of Lemont? “No person shall be eligible to any town office unless he shall be a legal voter, and have been one year a resident of such town.” (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, chap. 139, art. 9, sec. 1, p. 2013.) It is contended that appellee is not a legal voter as the term is here used, unless he was qualified to vote on April .4, 1905, in the election district in which he then resided. This court, in Williams v. Potter, 114 Ill. 628, in discussing township elections, after referring to several sections of the…
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