Keating v. Stack

Citations

• 116 Ill. 191
• 5 N.E. 541

Syllabus

<p>Contested election—jurisdiction—as to office of alderman in East-St. Louis. Under the special charter of the city of East St. Louis, the city-council is invested with the power and duty of determining ail contested; elections of its own members. A contest of an election before that body is. not a judicial but a ministerial proceeding, and its finding is not a judgment, in the ordinary sense of that term. No other tribunal than the city council, has jurisdiction in such case.</p>