People v. Keeling

The Constitution confers upon this court the power to issue the writ of quo warranto.

This is an information in the nature of a quo warranto, and in taking jurisdiction of it, it is perhaps proper that we should say, in view of some conflict of decisions in other States upon similar constitutional provisions, that in our view the framers of the Constitution used the words, “writs of quo warranto” as synonymous with “information in the nature of a quo warranto” or as including that proceed, ing which had substantially the same end, and which had both in England and America largely usurped the…