People ex rel. Peabody v. Chicago Gas Trust Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto filed by the Attorney General of the State in the Circuit Court of Cook County against The Chicago Gas Trust Company, summoning the latter to answer to the People of the State by what warrant it exercises certain powers, privileges and franchises therein described.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto filed by the Attorney General of the State in the Circuit Court of Cook County against The Chicago Gas Trust Company, summoning the latter to answer to the People of the State by what warrant it exercises certain powers, privileges and franchises therein described. The information sets out in full the charter of “The Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company,” granted by the Legislature of Illinois in 1849, an Act amendatory of such charter passed in 1855, an…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The Chicago Gas Trust Company, appellee herein, was organized under the General Incorporation law of this State. The Statement filed by the original incorporators with the Secretary of State sets, forth that the Trust Company was formed for two objects, or for one object of a two-fold character. The object, named in the first clause of the second specification of the “Statement,” is, in brief, the erection and operation of works in Chicago, and other places in Illinois, for the manufacture, sale and distribution of gas and electricity. ■The object named in the second clause of the second…
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