Wider v. City of East St. Louis

This was a bill in equity, filed by appellants in the St. Clair circuit court against appellees, to enjoin the city from appointing policemen, or from paying them, or granting to them orders on the city treasurer for pay for such services. The bill alleges that, on the twenty-second day of February, 1867, the general assembly adopted an act for the purpose of organizing a city police, and that complainants were appointed in pursuance of that act, and were acting as such police commissioners under it and an amendatory act adopted on the twenty-seventh day of March, 1869; that these acts gave…