Women's Catholic Order of Foresters v. People ex rel. Keefe
Appellate Court of Illinois
Mandamus.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr- Justice Gaby
delivebed the opinion of the Coubt.
Minnie Keefe filed a petition for a mandamus to compel the appellant to restore her to membership in itself, from which she alleged she had been expelled without a regular trial. Her petition made the constitution and by-laws of the superior and subordinate bodies composing the order an exhibit to, and part of, her petition. Whether that is a permissible mode of pleading at law we will not consider. In ordinary actions it is not. Hart v. Tolman, 1 Gilm. 1.
But as the petition without the exhibit is quite insufficient in its statements, and,…
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