People ex rel. Bancroft v. Lease
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Pike county; the Hon. Harry Higbep, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
• Mr. Justice Dunn
delivered the opinion of the court:
The State’s attorney of Pike county filed in the circuit court an information in the nature of a quo warranto, charging the plaintiffs in error with usurping and executing, without lawful authority, the office of commissioners of the McCraney Creek Drainage and Levee District, in said county. The plaintiffs in error filed a plea of justification, the People replied, and the plaintiffs in error filed a rejoinder, which was demurred to. The court sustained the demurrer, and, the plaintiffs in error electing to stand by their rejoinder,…
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