Bunn v. People ex rel. Laflin
Illinois Supreme Court
Wbit op Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a proceeding by information in the nature of a quo warranto, instituted in the court below by the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, Jacob Bunn, John W. Smith, James H. Beveridge, James C. Bobinson, William T. "V"andeveer, Phillip Wadsworth and William L. Hambleton, to test the constitutionality of the act of the legislature of 1867, providing for the erection of a new State house, upon the ground…
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Wbit op Ebbob to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was a proceeding by information in the nature of a quo warranto, instituted in the court below by the defendant in error, against the plaintiffs in error, Jacob Bunn, John W. Smith, James H. Beveridge, James C. Bobinson, William T. "V"andeveer, Phillip Wadsworth and William L. Hambleton, to test the constitutionality of the act of the legislature of 1867, providing for the erection of a new State house, upon the ground that the commissioners appointed under said act (plaintiffs in error) were “ officers,” within the meaning of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
The only question presented by this record is this: Are the commissioners appointed by the act of February 25, 1867, entitled “An act to provide for the erection of a new State house,” officers, within the meaning of the twelfth section of the fourth article, and of the twenty-third section of the fifth article, of the Constitution of this State ?
Section 12 is as follows: “ The governor shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate (or majority of all the senators concurring), appoint, all officers whose offices are established by this Constitution or which may be…
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