People ex rel. Mamer v. Wayman

At the last term of this court leave was given to the relator, Christopher Mamer, to file a petition for a writ of mandamus commanding the defendant, John E. W. Way-man, State’s attorney of Cook county, to file in the circuit •court of said county a petition for leave- to file an information in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, in the nature of quo warranto, against Charles Lanier and other persons assuming to act as officers and directors of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company, requiring them to answer to the People by what right they claim to exercise the…