People ex rel. Heffernan v. Carlock

This is a petition filed in this court in the name of the People of the State, on the relation of John F. Heffernan, against R. L. Oarlock, as county clerk of the county of McLean, to test the constitutionality of the act of the General Assembly entitled “An act to apportion the State into Senatorial districts, and to repeal certain acts therein named,” approved May 10, 1901. (Laws of 1901, p. 6.)

The enactment which is attacked provides that the counties of McLean and Ford shall constitute the twenty-sixth Senatorial district. The act approved June 15,1893, in force July 1, 1893, (2 Starr &…