Blanck v. Pausch

Citations

• 113 Ill. 60
• 1885 Ill. LEXIS 665

Syllabus

<p>1. Contested election—requisites of petition—as to qualifications of petitioner—for a town office. A petition for the contest of an election by one to the office of town clerk, or other town office, should aver that the petitioner was an elector of the town, or it will be fatally defective on demurrer. An averment that the contestant was a citizen and resident of the town is not sufficient.</p> <p>2. Citizenship—defined—whether it includes the right to vote. A citizen, in the popular and appropriate sense of the term, is one who by birth, naturalization, or Otherwise, is a member of an independent political society, called a State, kingdom or empire, and who, as such, is subject to its laws and entitled to its protection in all his rights incident to that relation. The term includes females and minors. The right of suffrage is not coextensive with the right of citizenship.</p> <p>3. Pleading—rule of construction. It is a familiar rule that all pleadings are to be construed most strongly against the pleader.</p>