People ex rel. Williams v. Darst

This was an information in the nature of quo warranto by the State’s attorney of McLean county, Illinois, in the circuit court of that county, on the relation of Richard Williams and sixteen other land owners and residents of the county, the majority of whom are owners of land in an alleged drainage district, against Rolla M. Darst, Henry A. Welch and William McKever, requiring them to show by what warrant or right they exercise the corporate powers, privileges and franchises of drainage commissioners of a supposed drainage district known as the Mackinaw Drainage District, in that county. The…