People ex rel. Kidd v. Crowley

On leave granted by the circuit court the State’s attorney of LaSalle county filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto on August 22, 1905, alleging that the plaintiffs in error held and executed, without warrant, the offices of commissioners of an alleged drainage district of the town of Ophir, in that county. June 22, 1906, by leave of court, additional counts were filed to the information, in which it was charged that the said plaintiffs in error were usurping certain franchises. Various pleas, replications, demurrers and certain motions were filed, and the cause was many times…