People Ex Rel. Curren v. Schommer

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon county. The action is a proceeding in quo warranto and is brought by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of the State’s Attorney of Sangamon county, under the authority and provisions of “An Act in relation to practice and procedure in cases of quo warranto,” approved July 2, 1937. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 112.

The complaint filed alleged that John J. Schommer, Charles A. Jean, E. L. Simmons, G. Harder Binz and William M. Marks, as respondents to the petition, unlawfully and without any warrant, right or…