Case ID: ill-app_209/html/0136-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois by Maclay Hoyne, State’s Attorney, ex rel. Lewis E. Larson, Appellant, v. Percy B. Coffin, Appellee.
    Gen. No. 23,523. (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the October term, 1917.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed December 17, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Petition in the nature of quo warranto by the People of the State of Illinois by Maclay Hoyne, State’s Attorney, on the relation of Lewis E. Larson, petitioner, against Percy B. Coffin, respondent, to try the title of respondent to the office of business manager of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago under an appointment by the new school board organized under the Act of April 20, 1917. From a judgment in favor of respondent, petitioner appeals.
    The questions involved in this case were decided in the opinion in People ex rel. McMahon v. Danis, ante, p. 117, and People ex rel. Shannon v. Francis, 
      
      ante, p. 135. See also People ex rel. Larson v. Miller, ante, p. 134.
    Maclay Hoyne, for appellant.
    Samuel A. Ettelson and Chester E. Cleveland, for appellee.
   Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.