Attorney General v. Chicago & Evanston Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, against the Chicago and Evanston Eailroad Company, in the circuit court of Cook county.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, against the Chicago and Evanston Eailroad Company, in the circuit court of Cook county. The petition states: That the Chicago and Evanston Eailroad Company was incorporated by a special act of the General Assembly, entitled.“An act to incorporate the Chicago and Evanston Eailroad Company, ” approved February 16, 1861, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from the city of Chicago to any point in the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
If the facts relied upon by the respondent, in answer to the rule to show cause, were disputed, or if new and doubtful questions of law were presented that would require more time for their satisfactory solution than could reasonably be given to them on such an application, then, under the authorities referred to by the relator, (Buller’s Nisi Prius, 210, Angell & Ames on Corp. secs. 740, 741, and King v. Meiss, 3 T. R. 596,) it would, doubtless, be the duty of the court to make the rule for an information absolute, “that the questions might receive a full and.final determination.” But the…
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