People ex rel. Rusch v. Bendix

Peter Bendix, Peter Stankus and John Josephitis were judges at a primary election held in Chicago on April 14, 1936. They were removed as such judges at about nine o’clock in the morning of the election because of the manner in which it was claimed they conducted themselves. Afterward a petition was filed against them charging that each of them, while acting as judge of the primary election, fraudulently and unlawfully permitted ten official Republican primary ballots and seven official Democratic primary ballots to be taken from the polling place of the 57th precinct of the 11th ward. The…