Gardner v. Board of School District No. 6

The bill herein was filed to restrain defendants from issuing bonds authorized at an election in a school district. Plaintiffs appealed from a decree adjudging the election valid and dismissing their bill. The point principally stressed is that unqualified persons voted, sufficient in number to offset the majority the proposition received. Plaintiffs called witnesses who voted, and, without claim of privilege, a number admitted disqualifications. Thereupon the circuit judge permitted such self-confessed illegal voters to be questioned as to how they voted, and it appeared from their testimony…