Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Agnew v. Graham

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided July 31, 1914No. Gen. No. 5,918Published

Error to the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Joe A. Davis, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell

By leave of court, the People, by the State’s Attorney of LaSalle County on the relation of Charles Agnew, filed an information against Edward Graham, F. E. Blakeslee and P. J. Cruise, requiring them to show by what warrant they held and exercised the offices of mayor of the city of Earlville and aldermen of said city of Earlville, and the offices of president, secretary and member, respectively, of the Board of Local Improvements of said city of Earlville, which offices said information charged that they had usurped and still do usurp. Eespondents filed a plea, setting up their title to said…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Choisser v. YorkIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
  2. Welsh v. ShumwayIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
  3. Steele v. CalhounMississippi Supreme Court · 1884
  4. People v. BrownIllinois Supreme Court · 1901
  5. Simons v. People ex rel. DunningIllinois Supreme Court · 1886

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