People ex rel. O'Connell v. Welty
Appellate Court of Illinois
Quo Warranto.—Tried in the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding. Leave to file petition denied. Appeal by relator.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burroughs
At the September term, 1897, of the Circuit Court of McLean County, the state’s attorney of that county, on the relation of Edmund' O’Connéll,'presented to the court a motion for leave to file in that court, an information in the nature of a quo warranto- against the appellee; and with that motion he tendered a petition sworn to and the information sought to be filed. The court ordered the petition filed, the cause docketed, and entered a rule on the appellee to show cause why the information should not be ordered filed as prayed for in the petition.
In response to the rule the appellee filed…
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