People ex rel. Woodyatt v. Thompson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. John Crabtree, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
This suit involves the constitutionality of an act of the Thirty-eighth General Assembly, approved June 15, 1893, making an apportionment of the State into senatorial districts. A petition in the name of the People, on the relation of William Woodyatt, by Chaides B. Morrison, as State’s attorney of Lee county, for a writ of mandamus, was filed on the 15th’ day of October, 1894, in the circuit court of Lee county, against the appellee, James H. Thompson, as county clerk of that county, to compel him to make and deliver to the supervisors of the several townships, notices for the election of…
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