People ex rel. Burgess v. Wilson
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an information-in the nature of a quo warranto, against Robert S. Wilson, for usurping, intruding into, and unlawfully holding the office of judge of the recorder’s court of the city of Chicago.
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This was an information-in the nature of a quo warranto, against Robert S. Wilson, for usurping, intruding into, and unlawfully holding the office of judge of the recorder’s court of the city of Chicago. The affidavit in support of the information, stated that under and by virtue of an act entitled “ An Act to establish the recorder’s court of the city of Chicago,” approved February 13, a. d. 1853, an election was held in said city on the first Tuesday of March, 1853, for a judge of said court, in pursuance of the first section of said act; that Wilson was elected, commissioned, sworn into…
1Per curiam
The judgment of the court of common pleas must be affirmed for the reasons stated by the judge of that court; whose opinion is adopted as the opinion of this court.
Judgment affirmed.
2Cited by5 opinions
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