People ex rel. Shanley v. O'Connor

This is an appeal by the commissioners of Union Drainage District No. 1 of the towns of Wallace and Waltham, in LaSalle county, from a judgment in an action of quo warranto ousting said drainage district and said drainage commissioners from exercising any corporate powers, franchise or jurisdiction over certain lands of the relators which the drainage district had determined had been annexed to said district by the connection of drains on said lands with the drains of the district, under section 42 of the Farm Drainage Act. In many similar cases the Supreme Court has taken jurisdiction of…