Flowers v. Kellar

At the annual election in the village of Robbins, in Cook county, on April 21, 1925, Richard Flowers and Thomas J. Kellar were opposing candidates for the office of village president. Kellar was declared elected and Flowers filed a petition in the circuit court to contest the election. The petition charged that a register of voters prepared for the township in which the village of Robbins is situated was used and that a large number of persons qualified to vote at a township election but not at the village election were permitted to vote; that persons otherwise disqualified voted at the…