Dickey v. Reed

On the 23d day of April, 1875, an election was held in the city of Chicago, to determine whether that municipality would change its charter, and the people would become incorporated under the general incorporation act for cities and villages, which went into force on the first day of July, 1872. On the 26th of that month, the prosecuting attorney and five others, tax-payers of the city, filed a bill in the circuit court of Cook county against forty aldermen, composing the common council of the city, and the city clerk. It alleges the omission, by the mayor and common council, to submit, in…