Kelly v. Gahn

Citations

• 112 Ill. 23
• 1 N.E. 167

Syllabus

<p>Election of town officers—in the town of Lake—at what time. The town of Lake, in Cook county, was incorporated by a special act in 1867, to be governed and managed by five trustees,—a supervisor, assessor and collector, to be elected, and the other two to be appointed by the county judge. In 1869 the charter of the town was revised, when it was provided that the town officers should be elected on the second Tuesday in April. In pursuance of the constitution, the legislature passed an act repealing all conflicting laws on the subject, and fixing the time for the election of town officers on the first Tuesday in April in each year: Held, that the supervisor, assessor and collector, being town officers, were properly elected on the first Tuesday in April, and that their election was governed by the general law, as revised in 1874, and that the two trustees provided in addition to those town officers, should be elected at the same time.</p>