Burritt v. Commissioners of State Contracts
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a petition, filed in this court, asking for issue of a writ of mandamus, on the grounds and for the purposes fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
The relator, Hiram B. Burritt, is shown to be a justice of the peace of Lake county, and files this petition, in his own behalf, as such officer, and in behalf of all town officers in counties under township organization, and of all justices of the peace in counties not under township organization, to compel the Commissioners of State Contracts to contract for and obtain, for the use of such town officers and justices of the peace, copies of a certain book known as “Haines’ Township Organization Laws, ” as provided in a certain concurrent resolution passed and adopted by the General Assembly…
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