People ex rel. Shanley v. O'Connor
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edgar EldrEdge, Judge, presiding. This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto filed by Charles S. Cullen, the State’s attorney of LaSalle county, in the circuit court of said county, in the name of the People, upon the relation of Mary Shanley, John Kinnegar and William Anderson, against Daniel J. O’Connor, James J. O’Donnell and Fred Roux, as drainage commissioners of Union Drainage District No. i of the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edgar EldrEdge, Judge, presiding. This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto filed by Charles S. Cullen, the State’s attorney of LaSalle county, in the circuit court of said county, in the name of the People, upon the relation of Mary Shanley, John Kinnegar and William Anderson, against Daniel J. O’Connor, James J. O’Donnell and Fred Roux, as drainage commissioners of Union Drainage District No. i of the towns of Wallace and Waltham, in LaSalle county, to test the legality of the annexation of the lands of said relators to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
It is first contended that the information was not sufficient, in law, to require the appellants to answer the same. The purpose of the information was to require appellants to show by what warrant they were exercising authority over the lands of the relators as drainage commissioners, and it was sufficient to allege, in general terms, that the appellants were usurping certain privileges, powers and franchises, and exercising jurisdiction, without authority of law, over the relators’ lands, as commissioners of said drainage district.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- People ex rel. Shallberg v. Central Union Telephone Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1908
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- Richards v. GreeneIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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