PEO. EX REL. SCHOOL DIST. 153 v. WICKHAM

No. 37941.

29 Ill.2d 550 (1963)

194 N.E.2d 206

THE PEOPLE ex rel. School District No. 153 et al., Appellees, v. BLANCH O. WICKHAM, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 26, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

HOUGH, YOUNG & COALE, of Chicago, (JOHN P. CHANDLER II, of counsel,) for appellant.

NORMAN, ENGELHARDT, ZIMMERMAN, FRANKE & LAURITZEN, of Chicago, (HAROLD W. NORMAN, ALLYN J. FRANKE, and RALPH MILLER, of counsel,) for appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE HOUSE delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court of Cook County granting a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, as supervisor of the town of Bloom, to ratably distribute $125,000 of the general town fund to the several petitioner school districts maintaining grades 1 through 8 located wholly or partly within the town.

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