Iroquois Agricultural Society v. Bates & Lippincott

Citations

• 61 Ill. 490

Syllabus

<p>1. Agricultural society—which of two entitled to State bounty. Under the act of May 18, 1857, aud the subsequent act of 1861, providing for the payment of $100 by the State to county agricultural societies, the society first duly organized is entitled to the bounty.</p> <p>2. Where two agricultural societies organized in the same county, each applied for the State bounty, and the board of supervisors decided that the society last organized was entitled to it, upon which the auditor acted with notice of the facts: Held, on application for mandamus by the older society, that the petitioner was entitled to the bounty, and that the action of the board of supervisors could not affect the question.</p>