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PEOPLE EX REL. MONTGOMERY v. LIERMAN

No. 32557.

415 Ill. 32 (1953)

112 N.E.2d 149

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Vivian Montgomery et al., Appellants, v. EUGENE P. LIERMAN, County Judge, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 18, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DONALD D. RICHMOND, of Champaign, and W. LEE SUMMERS, of Urbana, for appellants.

JOHN J. BRESSEE, State's Attorney, W.C. NOEL, GENE D. WEISIGER, JOHN H. FINFROCK, and ORIS BARTH, all of Urbana, (HENRY I. GREEN, CHANCY L. FINFROCK, WINKELMANN & WINKELMANN, J.M. MITCHEM, W.A. NICHOLS, GLEN E. CHAPMAN, OLIN L. BROWDER, and ROY R. CLINE, of counsel,) for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Champaign County denying appellants' petition for a writ of mandamus directed to the county judge of that county, commanding him to call an election in the cities of Champaign and Urbana to vote on the proposition of merging those two cities. The validity of article 6 of the Revised Cities and Villages Act relating...

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