People ex rel. Davenport v. Brown

This was a petition for a peremptory mandamus, filed by the appellants, to the end that the county judge of Woodford county, and his associate justices and their clerk, might be commanded to make and transmit an abstract of the votes, &c., of that county, to the Auditor of state, and that notices, &c., be given, designating a suitable time and place for holding an election in each of the towns of said county, for the purpose of organizing the same, &c. The appellees, on showing cause, denied that a majority of the votes of those entitled to vote upon the question, had been cast for township…