Niebling v. Town of Moline

The city court of Moline permanently enjoined the town of Moline and its supervisor from carrying out the provisions of Senate Bill No. 257 passed by the Sixty-ninth General Assembly, approved by the Governor and effective July 1, 1955. The complaint was filed by a taxpayer of the township who contended the bill as passed and approved was unconstitutional and that expenditure of large sums of money for the necessary election expenses in April of 1956 would be a waste of taxes and public funds. The town and its supervisor as ex officio treasurer of the town fund have directly appealed to this…