Appellate Court of Illinois March 1, 1898 (Knight v. Village of Thompsonville)

Mr. Justice Worthington

delivered the opinion of the Court.

At the October term, 1896, of the Franklin County Circuit Court, a petition for mandamis was pending to compel the defendants, appellants here, the president, trustees and treasurer of the village of Thompsonville, to restore $200 in money into the village treasury, which it was alleged they had wrongfully paid out to one Snyder, to bore