Devous v. Gallatin County
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Gallatin county; the Hon. E. E. Newlin, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
An election was held in Gallatin county on November io, 1908, at which the question of the removal of the county seat from the city of ' Shawneetown to the village of Ridgway was submitted to the legal voters of the said county. The returns, when canvassed, showed a majority of seventy votes against the removal, and on December 9, 1908, the plaintiffs in error, five citizens of the incorporated village of Ridgway, and the village, filed their petition in the circuit court of said county against two of the defendants in error, Gallatin county and the city of Shawneetown, for a contest of the…
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