County of Lawrence v. Schmaulhausen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lawrence county; the Hon. William C. Jones, Judge, presiding. This is a petition claimed to be filed under section 117 of the Election law of this State, (chap. 46, Hurd’s Bev. Stat. of 1885, p. 542) for the alleged purpose of contesting an election in Lawrence county. The petitioners are more than five in number and style themselves “electors of the county of Lawrence.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lawrence county; the Hon. William C. Jones, Judge, presiding. This is a petition claimed to be filed under section 117 of the Election law of this State, (chap. 46, Hurd’s Bev. Stat. of 1885, p. 542) for the alleged purpose of contesting an election in Lawrence county. The petitioners are more than five in number and style themselves “electors of the county of Lawrence.” The petition avers, that, on July 12,1886, the board of supervisors of Lawrence county passed and caused to be entered of record an order to build a new court house at a cost of $50,000, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The sixty-first section of chapter 46 of the Revised- Statutes, entitled “Elections,” (Hurd’s Rev. Stat. 1885, p. 536,) provides,, that, when the votes shall have been examined and counted, the clerks shall set down in their poll-books the name of every person voted for written at full length, the office for which such person received such votes, and the number he did receive, the-number being expressed in words at full length, such entry to-be made, as nearly as circumstances will admit, in the following form, to-wit: “At an election held at * * * in the county of * * * and State of Illinois…
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