People ex rel. Dunham v. Morgan

This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, exhibited in the court below against the defendants, charging them with usurping the office of South Park Commissioners. The question presented for determination arises on the sufficiency of the plea filed by defendants, in which they claim a legal title to the office. The relator demurred to the plea, but the court held it sufficient and overruled the demurrer, and rendered judgment in favor of respondents. To reverse that decision relator prosecutes this appeal.

The plea avers, that in February, 1869, the General Assembly passed an act…