People ex rel. McCagg v. Mayor of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an application to this court, in the name of the people, on the relation of Ezra B. McCagg and others, Commissioners of Lincoln Park, for a writ of mandamus, to compel the mayor, comptroller and city clerk of the city of Chicago, to issue and deliver to the relators, the bonds o'f the city, as required by the 12th section of the act of February 8, 1869. entitled “ An act to fix the boundaries of Lincoln Park, and provide for its improvement.”
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
Tlie questions presented by this record arise on a demurrer to an alternative writ of mandamus, issued on the relation of Ezra B. McCagg, John B. Turner, Joseph Stockton, Andrew Helson, and Jacob Behm, styling themselves “ Commissioners of Lincoln Park,” in the city of Chicago, and against the mayor, comptroller and clerk of that city, requiring them to show cause why a peremptory writ should not be awarded against them, to compel them, forthwith, to execute and deliver to the relators certain bonds of the city, to which they claim to be entitled, in virtue of an act of the general assembly…
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