People ex rel. Barbee v. Jarecki

This is a writ of error sued out by the plaintiff in error, James G-. Coyle, who was elected alderman of' the seventeenth ward in Chicago, which office the relator Barbee claimed. Coyle sought to be made a party to the relator’s petition for mandamus, but his motion for that purpose was denied by the trial court. It is self evident that Coyle was an interested party and should have been in the first instance made a party to the proceeding.

This proceeding is analogous to the case of People ex rel. Eaton v. Jarecki, post, p. 628, the opinion of the court by Mr. Justice Wilson being handed down…