People ex rel. Barnett v. Bartlett

Plaintiffs in error filed an amended information in the nature of a quo warranto informing the court that defendant in error unlawfully held and executed without warrant, right or lawful authority, the office of alderman of the city of Edwardsville, and had usurped said office. The information prayed process and the answer of defendant in error, by what warrant he held and executed the office.

Defendant in error interposed two pleas, in the first of which all the material facts necessary to show how he was elected and qualified to hold the office were averred except that he did not aver that…