PEOPLE EX REL. FURLONG v. BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS, CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 30921.

404 Ill. 326 (1949)

88 N.E.2d 864

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Paul J. Furlong et al., Appellees, v. THE BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 22, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BERNARD J. KORZEN, KIRKLAND, FLEMING, GREEN, MARTIN & ELLIS, SCOTT, MacLEISH & FALK, JACOB SHAMBERG, and WALTER F. DODD, (JOSEPH B. FLEMING, EDWARD C. CALDWELL, CHARLES M. PRICE, ROBERT S. CUSHMAN, and JOSEPH N. MORENCY, JR., of counsel,) all of Chicago, for appellants.

URBAN A. LAVERY, of Chicago, for appellees.


Judgment reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE GUNN delivered the opinion of the court:

This suit was filed by a number of taxpayers and voters, as relators, in the superior court of Cook County, to mandamus the Board of Election Commissioners to use in the November 2, 1948, general election regular paper ballots in place of, and in lieu of, voting machines, which had been purchased and approved for over four hundred voting...

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