People ex rel. Tilton v. Mackey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Owen P. Thompson, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers
On the 21st day of April, 1911, Robert Tilton, as State’s attorney of Morgan county, presented a petition to the Hon. Owen P. Thompson, circuit judge, alleging that Charles W. Mackey and others named assumed to be a private corporation for profit, under the name of “The Jacksonville Water-Works Company,” and to transact business as such without any lawful warrant or authority, and prayed for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and that process might issue against the defendants. Leave being granted, the information…
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