PEOPLE EX REL. DeDONCKER v. EAST MOLINE

Gen. No. 11,284.

23 Ill. App.2d 334 (1959)

163 N.E.2d 109

People of the State of Illinois ex rel. David DeDoncker, and Oral Jacobs, Plaintiff-Intervenor, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The City of East Moline, a Municipal Corporation, Defendant-Appellee. Frank J. Esposito, F. Joseph Ryan, and Ray Westerbeck, Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, Second Division.

Released for publication January 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Joseph Ryan, of East Moline, and Moran, Klockau, McCarthy, and Johnson, of Rock Island, for defendants-appellants.

John M. Kerwin, of East Moline, Isador I. Katz, of Reidy, Katz, McAndrews, Durkee, and Telleen, of Rock Island, Dan Howard McNeal, of Moline, for plaintiff-intervenor, plaintiff-appellee, and appellee City of East Moline.


JUSTICE CROW delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was commenced on November 18, 1958, by the filing of a petition in the name of the People on the relation of David DeDoncker for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the defendant City of East Moline, a municipal corporation, to abide by the result of a municipal election held on April 16, 1957, which result was for the abandonment of the managerial (city manager) form of municipal government, and to comply...

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