Cornell v. People ex rel. Walsh

This. was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought against Paul Cornell, to determine his right or authority to hold the office of- park commissioner in a corporation in Cook county, known as the South Park Commissioners, which was created by an act of the General Assembly approved February 21, 1869, entitled “An act to provide for the location and maintenance of a park for the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake.” By section 1 of the act, five persons, to be appointed by the Governor, together with their successors, are constituted a board of park commissioners, to be…