People ex rel. Shriver v. Cowen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macoupin county; the Hon. Norman L. Jones, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duncan
The State’s attorney of Macoupin county, on the relation of William A. Shriver, a citizen and tax-payer of High School District No. 180, known as Virden Township High School District, in said county, filed a petition in the circuit court of said county at the January term, 1917, asking leave to file an information in the nature of quo warranto against appellants, Herbert H. Cowen, W. W. Morrow, Ezra H. Brubaker, Charles L. Gish, J. IT. Patton, George Truman and Elliott R. Motley, charging that appellants were usurping and unlawfully exercising the duties, powers and prerogatives of a board of…
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