People ex rel. Wider v. Canty
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. At the August term, 1870, of the court below, upon leave, an information was filed by the State’s attorney, in the nature of a quo.warranto, in which it was alleged that Ernest W. Wider, Henry Schall and E. L. Barrowman, were at that time the acting and duly qualified police commissioners of the city of East St. Louis, having been appointed as such under the act of February 25,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. At the August term, 1870, of the court below, upon leave, an information was filed by the State’s attorney, in the nature of a quo.warranto, in which it was alleged that Ernest W. Wider, Henry Schall and E. L. Barrowman, were at that time the acting and duly qualified police commissioners of the city of East St. Louis, having been appointed as such under the act of February 25, 1867, entitled “an act to establish a police force for the city of East St. Louis.” It was further alleged, that said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
Appellants, on leave, through the State’s attorney, filed an information in the nature of a quo warranto against appellee. It set out the act of the legislature, adopted on the twenty-second day of February, 1867, (Private Laws, vol. 2, p. 483,) to organize a police force for the city of East St. Louis, and the amendatory act of the twenty-seventh day of March, 1869, (Private Laws, vol. 1, p. 911,) under which they claim to have been appointed police commissioners for the city, in pursuance of their provisions. And they claim that, under these enactments, they have the sole and exclusive…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lovingston v. WiderIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
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