Elston & Wheeling Gravel Road Co. v. People ex rel. Pierce

This was a suit by information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought in the Criminal Court of Cook county, at the relation of Francis A. Pierce against The Elston and Wheeling Gravel Boad Company.

The company was organized under an act entitled “An act to provide for constructing, maintaining and keeping in repair plank, gravel, or macadamized roads or pikes by a general law,” in force April 26, 1859. Laws of 1859, p. 154. The organization was effected in 1868 with a capital of $50,000. The company having obtained the consent of the commissioners of highways of the towns of Jefferson and…