People ex rel. Caldwell v. Commissioners of Wild Cat Drainage District

The State’s attorney of Champaign county, in the name of the People, on the relation of certain land owners feeling themselves aggrieved, filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto against the commissioners of the Wild Cat drainage district, and alleged that said commissioners, without warrant of law, did usurp and exercise jurisdiction over certain lands belonging to the relators, and did pretend to annex said lands to said district and to levy certain special assessments thereon for drainage purposes, and asked that said commissioners be required to show by what warrantor…