People v. Ketchum
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application to this court, at the suit of The People, for a writ of mandamus against the trustees of the lands granted to the Illinois Central Railroad Company.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This is a petition filed by the Attorney General, on behalf of the people of the State, praying for a peremptory writ of mandamus against Morris Ketchum, Samuel D. Lockwood and John M. Palmer, trustees appointed under section 15 of the act to incorporate the Illinois Central Railroad Company, approved February 10, 1851.
The object of the application is to compel these trustees to dispose of the unsold lands of that company, to effect which the General Assembly passed an act, approved March 28. 1873, entitled “An act to compel the trustees of the lands granted to the Illinois Central Railroad…
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