People ex rel. City of Springfield v. Edmands

This proceeding for mandamus was begun in the circuit court of Sangamon county to test the constitutionality of the act passed by the Forty-sixth General Assembly authorizing the adoption of what is commonly known as the commission form of city government. (Laws of 1909-10, p. 12.) The city of Springfield was the relator, and the petition alleged that William H. Bowe was elected by the mayor and commissioners, organized as the city council, to the office of city treasurer, and that he qualified and demanded from appellant, Charles H. Edmands, Jr., county treasurer of said county, the amount…