People Ex Rel. Shrontz v. Astle

T. R. Johnston, State’s attorney, on the relation of Mack Shrontz and Jesse Hayden, filed in the circuit court of Kankakee county a petition for leave to file an information in quo warranto against Charles B. Astle, Charles A. Violet, John V. Lewis, Harry Hoag and Alfred H. Murray, alleging that they were unlawfully usurping the office of trustees of a district known as the Momence Conservancy District ; that the relators were residents and tax-payers within the territory over "which said respondents were usurping jurisdiction and acting as the board of trustees of such pretended district,…