Sorenson v. Sorenson

The parties to this suit are brothers, who were rival candidates for the office of president of the board of trustees for the village of Gilberts, in Kane county, at an election held in said village on April 17,1900. Fifty-nine ballots were cast, and on a canvass by the village board it was declared that appellant had received thirty-one votes and appellee twenty-eight. Appellant was declared elected and was installed in office. Appellee filed his petition in the county court to contest the election of appellant, on the ground that ten persons named in the petition who were not legal voters…