State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Wilkie Land Co.

This is an appeal from a dismissal of an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed in the name of the Attorney General at the relation of A. H. Handlan, to forfeit the respondent’s corporate charter and franchise. The trial court dismissed the information for the reason it was signed only by J. A. Lennon, special counsel for the Attorney General.

During .the argument of the case in this court, our jurisdiction was questioned by the court. The attorney for relator suggested that we had jurisdiction because the Attorney General was a state officer.

This action was not instituted ex…