People ex rel. Harding v. Wiley

By leave of court an information in the name of the People was filed on June 24, 1916, in the circuit court of Peoria county, to challenge the legal existence of Elmwood High School District in the counties of Peoria and Knox, by calling upon the plaintiffs in error to show by what warrant they claimed to act as officers for such district. The plaintiffs in error filed pleas to the information, setting up by appropriate averments the organization of the high school district in compliance with the act of June 5, 1911, for the organization of high school districts and their election as officers…