Martens v. People ex rel. Searle

This is an appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District, affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Rock Island county, against appellant, in a quo warranto proceeding begun in that court by the State’s attorney of Rock Island county. The motion for leave to file the information stated that- appellant claimed and was attempting to exercise the right to keep a dram-shop under a license issued to him by the mayor of the city of Moline on November 4, 1898, contrary to the ordinances of said city and the statute in such case made and provided; that no petition, as required by the…