People ex rel. Chicago & Iowa R. R. v. Chapman

Citations

• 66 Ill. 137

Syllabus

<p>Municipal subscbiption—condition of call for election and, rote must be shown to home been complied with. Where the petition for the call of an election to determine whether a township should subscribe to the capital stock of a railroad, clearly showed that the signers intended to have the subscription, if any, made under the provisions of the act of 1869, entitled “An act to fund and provide for paying railroad debts of counties, townships, cities and towns,” and where the notice of the election referred to such petition, it was held that a majority of all the voters residing in the township must vote for the proposition, and that a majority of the votes cast at such election, which were not a majority of the voters residing in the township, created no liability on the authorities to make the proposed subscription.</p>