People Ex Rel. Fergus v. Blackwell

This is a quo warranto proceeding instituted in the circuit court of Cook county on the relation of John B. Fergus and H. H. Harrison against the defendants, as senators and representatives elected to the Fifty-sixth General Assembly, to require them to show by what right and authority they held their offices for their respective districts. The petition for leave to file the information, which was granted, and the information, both set forth in detail the basis for the proceeding, which was that every General Assembly since 1911, including the Fifty-sixth General Assembly, had failed to…