Catlett v. People ex rel. State's Attorney

This is an information in the nature of quo warranto by the State’s Attorney of Vermilion county, “who sues for the People of the State of Illinois,’’ against J. W. Turner, J. A. Cox, Ed. Robinson, Peter Barry, J. H. Wells, J. M. Hall, and the appellant, B. H. Catlett, charging that they execute without any warrant or right whatever, the office or corporate name of President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Fairmount, and as such are unlawfully, without grant or charter, assuming to be a body corporate and politic by the name and style of The Village of Fail-mount, and by such name and…