People Ex Rel. Simpson v. Funkhouser

January 2, 1941, a petition signed by more than fifty legal voters residing in non-high school territory, located in Wayne, White and Hamilton counties, was filed in the office of the county superintendent of schools of Wayne county, requesting the superintendent to order an election for the purpose of voting for or against the proposition to establish a community high school within the territory described, pursuant to section 89a of the act to establish and maintain a system of free schools. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 122, par. 97.) The county superintendent ordered an election to be held…