Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Williams v. Darst

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 18, 1918No. 11882PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Writ or Error to the 'Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. T. M. Harris, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn

On November 29, 1913, the county court of McLean county entered an order under the Levee Drainage act declaring the Mackinaw Drainage District duly established as provided by law. January io, 1914, the State’s attorney of McLean county filed an information in the nature of quo warranto in the circuit court against Rolla M. Darst, Henry A. Welch and William McKeever, informing the court that the respondents had usurped and assumed to exercise the corporate powers, liberties, privileges and franchises of the supposed drainage district known as the Mackinaw Drainage District, and calling upon…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Merkle Drainage District v. HathawayIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
  2. People ex rel. Williams v. DarstIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  3. Stokes v. Bay Bottoms Drainage DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1917
  4. Trustees of Schools v. GriffithIllinois Supreme Court · 1914

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Lackey v. Pulaski Drainage DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1954
  2. Sproul v. SpringmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1925
  3. People Ex Rel. Fitton v. EhlerIllinois Supreme Court · 1929
  4. Westerhold v. HaleIllinois Supreme Court · 1947
  5. Danaher v. PhillipsIllinois Supreme Court · 1925

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