Latham v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Quo Warranto Proceedings. — Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1900. Reversed and remanded with directions.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wright
Information in the nature of a quo warranto by appellee against appellant to oust him from office of alderman of the second ward in the city of Lexington.
Several pleas were tiled to the information, setting up in various forms that at the election appellant and Preble, the relator, were voted for as aldermen, and the judges of the election returned the vote to the effect that appellant received sixty-five votes and Preble sixty-eight votes, after which appellant filed before the city council his petition to contest the election of relator, and that the city council afterward declared that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Patterson v. People ex rel. AllenAppellate Court of Illinois · 1896
3Cited by2 opinions
- Garms v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903
- People ex rel. Frazier v. AltenbergAppellate Court of Illinois · 1913