People ex rel. Dibelka v. Reinberg

The relators, James B. Dibelka, John C. Harding, Henry W. Huttman and Charles O. Sethness, by leave first obtained, filed in this court, at the April term, their petition for a writ of mandamus directed against Peter Reinberg, president, and Lewis E. Larson, secretary of the board of education of the city of Chicago, commanding said respondents, as officers of said board of education, to recognize the relators as members of said board until the expiration of their terms of office, July 17, 1914.

The petition alleges the city of Chicago, prior to the year 1909 and until the present time, was…