People ex rel. Gridley v. Farnham
Illinois Supreme Court
Weft of Eeeoe to the Circuit Court of Kendall county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollistee, Judge, presiding. On the 15th day of January, 1863, the State’s attorney, upon the relation' of Selah Gridley, exhibited in the court below an-information in the nature of a quo warranto, against Lucius Farnham, Isaac Lott, Joseph S. Bibbins, William Williams and Henry.
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Weft of Eeeoe to the Circuit Court of Kendall county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollistee, Judge, presiding. On the 15th day of January, 1863, the State’s attorney, upon the relation' of Selah Gridley, exhibited in the court below an-information in the nature of a quo warranto, against Lucius Farnham, Isaac Lott, Joseph S. Bibbins, William Williams and Henry. H. Lewis. . It was alleged that the defendants were using and exercising, without lawful authority, the office and privileges of trustees of the town of Newark, in the county of Kendall, whereas, in fact, the said town of Newark had never been…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walkee
This record presents the question whether the town of Newark was ever legally incorporated. It appears that the inhabitants of the village, in 1849, elected trustees, who organized as a board and assumed to exercise all of the functions pertaining to a lawfully incorporated town; that annual elections were held from that time until the exhibition of this information-, with the exception of one year; that during that time the trustees claimed and exercised all the franchises belonging to such a body regularly organized. It also appears that an effort was made to organize under the general law…
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