People v. Wall
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ OF Error to the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, against George W. Wall, to show by what authority he exercised the office of circuit judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
But one question is made on this record, and that has relation to the validity of the act of June 2, 1877, entitled “ An act to divide the State of Illinois, exclusive of Cook county, into judicial circuits.” One section of that act provides, that in lieu of the circuits provided for in section 13, in article 6 of the constitution, the State of Illinois, exclusive of Cook county, shall be divided into judicial circuits, and it then declares the third circuit shall be composed of certain counties, naming them, which had previously constituted the twenty-second and twenty-third circuits as…
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