The People v. Chi. Transit Authority

The questions arising in this case involve the validity of an act entitled: “An Act to create a municipal corporation for public ownership and operation of a transportation system in the metropolitan area of Cook County,” to be known as the “Metropolitan Transit Authority Act.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1945, chap. 1112/3, pars. 301 et seq.) The corporation created by this act will be hereinafter referred to as the Authority. The cause comes here on an appeal from an order and judgment of the circuit court of Cook county sustaining motions to strike an information in quo warranto brought by the…