McGahan v. People ex rel. Deneen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John C. Garver, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
This was an information in the nature of a quo toarranto, filed December 15, 1898, by the State’s attorney of Cook county, in the circuit'court, against Robert Mc-Gahan, Moses Doyle, George Airey, John Burke, Cyrus Michelson, John Aggen and Martin Simon, charging that they held and do now hold and execute, without authority of law, the offices and corporate name of president and board of trustees of the pretended village of Mt. Greenwood, and that they unlawfully assume, as such president and board of trustees, without grant or charter, to be .a body politic and corporate by the name of…
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