People ex rel. Swigert v. Golden Rule
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. On the 6th of January, 1885, the Attorney General entered a motion in the Warren circuit court for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of the Auditor of Public Accounts, -against the “Golden Rule, ” 0. S. Barnum, T. S. Stamps, J. H. Wallace, John Troutman and W. B. Young, and in support of the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. On the 6th of January, 1885, the Attorney General entered a motion in the Warren circuit court for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of the Auditor of Public Accounts, -against the “Golden Rule, ” 0. S. Barnum, T. S. Stamps, J. H. Wallace, John Troutman and W. B. Young, and in support of the motion he filed the following affidavit: “Charles P. Swigert, being duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says that he is…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
This case is not analogous to that of The People ex rel. v. North Chicago Ry. Co. 88 Ill. 538, as seems to be claimed by counsel for appellees. There the application was by a private party to file an information. Here it is by the Attorney General, at the instance and upon the affidavit of the Auditor of Public Accounts. It is provided by section 15, chapter 12, of the Revised Statutes of 1874, that “the Auditor shall be deemed the proper officer to institute all suits, motions, and other proceedings in law and equity, in which the State is plaintiff, except in cases otherwise provided by…
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