People ex rel. Ledbetter v. Hadfield

Mr. Presiding Justice Culbertson

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Williamson county dismissing a petition for mandamus filed by Frank Ledbetter, appellant (hereinafter called petitioner), as against Sina Hadfield, as city clerk of the City of Carterville, Illinois, appellee (hereinafter called respondent). A motion of respondent to dismiss such petition has been sustained, and petitioner has elected to stand by the petition.

The petition, which was filed on October 7, 1941, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on the…