Case ID: ill_275/html/0593-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Cooke", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People ex rel. William H. Fitzgerald et al. Appellants, vs. Frank B. Stitt et al. Appellees.
    
      Opinion filed October 24, 1916
    
    
      Rehearing denied Dec. 15, 1916.
    
    This case is controlled by the decision in People v. Weis, (ante, p. 581.)
    Farmer, J., dissenting.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. George W. Patton, Judge, presiding.
    Thomas Kennedy, State’s Attorney, Edward F. Riely, Barry & Morrissey, and Louis FitzHenry, for appellants.
    John F. Bosworth, Barnes & Magoon, and W. L. Ellwood, for appellees.
   Mr. Justice Cooke

delivered the opinion of the court:

The-circuit court of Woodford county granted leave to appellants to file an information in the nature of quo warranto against appellees, charging them with usurping the office of president and members of the board of education of the pretended school district No. 375, in the counties of Woodford and McLean. - A trial resulted in finding appellees not guilty, and judgment was rendered against appellants for costs.

The district was attempted to be organized under the Township High School act of June 5, 1911,'and one of the grounds urged for reversal is that the act is invalid as in violation of section 22 of article 4 of the constitution. This precise question has been determined in People v. Weis, (ante, p. 581,) where the contentions of the parties in this case were carefully considered. For the reasons given in that case the Township High School act of June 5, 1911, is invalid, and the judgment of the circuit court is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. Justice Farmer, dissenting.