People ex rel. State's Attorney v. Cowden

This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, against appellees, to oust them from the office of members of the township board of education in and for township 10, north, range 4, west, in Henderson county. It appears from the petition that at the April election for trustees of schools, in 1895, the proposition for or against establishing a township high school in said township was submitted to a vote of the people, resulting in a majority vote for the proposition. Defendants filed a plea to the information, setting up that they were subsequently duly elected to the office of…