People ex rel. Patterson v. Fifer

The State’s attorney of Moultrie county, acting on the relation of some 122 relators, was denied leave by the circuit court of said county to file an information in the nature of qito warranto against the respondents, who are the president and members of the board of education of Sullivan Township High School District No. ioo of Moultrie county. The petition asking leave to file the information recited the district was organized and doing business under what is known as the Township High School act of 1911, (Laws of 1911, p. 505,) which act was held unconstitutional by this court in People v.…