People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Anderson

On September 16, 1947, the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of George F. Barrett, Attorney General, filed a petition in this court for an original writ of mandamus against Brainard F. Anderson, county clerk of Iroquois County, to require him to comply with the provisions of the recent Reapportionment Act, entitled “An Act to apportion the State of Illinois into twenty-six Congressional districts and to establish the same and to provide for the election of representatives therein and to repeal an act therein named.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 46, par. 156a et seq.) The court…