Cintuc, Inc. v. Kozubowski

Plaintiff, Cintuc, Inc., doing business as Cintuc Beer Garden (Cintuc), brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against defendants, the city clerk and the Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago. Contesting the validity of a petition for a local option election, Cintuc asked the trial court to enjoin defendants from placing a referendum question on the April 2,1991, ballot.

Cintuc claimed that the petition failed to contain a sufficient number of valid signatures. Cintuc argued, inter alia, that the petition sheets contained an error in the notarial jurat, which invalidated…