Equitable Trust Co. of New York v. Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad

I cannot concur in the opinion filed in this case. It holds that the Attorney General, on behalf of the People, had no right to intervene. It does not hold, and it is not the law, that a party whose interests are affected has no right to a writ of error to review a decree affecting his interests. The contrary is the rule. This is true though he is not made a party to the action. (People v. O’Connell, 252 Ill. 304; Anderson v. Steger, 173 id. 112.) The writ of error in this case goes further than to complain of the refusal of the court to permit the Attorney General to intervene, — it attacks…