PEOPLE EX REL. CITY OF GREEN ROCK v. RICHARDS

Gen. No. 10,822.

5 Ill. App.2d 437 (1955)

125 N.E.2d 838

People of State of Illinois ex rel. City of Green Rock, a Municipal Corporation, and Peter Van Opdorp, Petitioners-Appellants, v. J.E. Richards, as Acting Judge of County Court of Henry County, Respondent, and Oscar L. Williamson et al., Intervenors-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Released for publication April 26, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Kirman, State's Attorney, of Cambridge, for appellants; Sherwood L. Costigan, and Joseph Ryan, both of East Moline, and Earl L. Scott, of Rock Island, of counsel.

James H. Andrews, Harper Andrews, and Campbell Andrews, all of Kewanee, for appellees.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE WOLFE delivered the opinion of the court.

A petition for certiorari was filed by the state's attorney of Henry county, on relation of the City of Green Rock, and Peter Van Opdorp, a citizen and resident of said city, charging that on April 21, 1953, an election was held within and for the City of Green Rock, on the question "Shall the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor continue to be prohibited in the City of Green Rock, Henry County, Illinois...

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