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PEOPLE EX REL. ALEXANDER v. CITY OF MT. VERNON

No. 31049.

404 Ill. 58 (1949)

88 N.E.2d 45

THE PEOPLE ex rel. L.O. Alexander et al., Appellants, v. THE CITY OF MT. VERNON et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 22, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DOWELL & DOWELL, GEORGE W. DOWELL and N.Y. DOWELL, all of Mt. Vernon, for appellants.

DEWITT & WOODRUFF, MAURICE DEWITT, and JOE FRANK ALLEN, all of Mt. Vernon, and THORP, BOSWICK, REED & ARMSTRONG, KENNETH G. JACKSON, and JOSEPH E. MADVA, all of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for appellees.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE DAILY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson County denying a petition for writ of mandamus. The petition was filed in the name of the People, on the relation of L.O. Alexander and more than one hundred other residents of the city of Mt. Vernon, who are the appellants here. It sought to compel the city of Mt. Vernon, its mayor and council, and the Pressed...

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