People ex rel. Dixon v. Shaw
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, first filed in the circuit court for the county of Stephenson, 30th March, 1850, upon change of venue from Winnebago.
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This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, first filed in the circuit court for the county of Stephenson, 30th March, 1850, upon change of venue from Winnebago. The affidavit of the relator, upon which leave was obtained to file the information, was filed in the Winnebago circuit court, 18th March, 1850. It sets out part of the Rockford Bridge Act of 25th February, 1847, including the clause requiring the Rockford Bridge Commissioners to be elected at the general election; and that ever since 1st December, 1849, the defendants had usurped, intruded into, and unlawfully held and…
1Opinion of the CourtScates, J.
By an act, 25th February, 1847, for the maintenance of the Rockford Bridge, among other things, it was provided, that “an election for four commissioners, under this act, shall be held at the next general election, on the first Monday in August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and every year thereafter, to be elected by the legal voters of Rockford precinct,” and making a corporation of them, with right of succession. The defendants were duly elected by the precinct on the first Monday in August, 1849; and this information was filed to try the question of holding the election on that day,…
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