North & South Rolling Stock Co. v. People ex rel. Schaefer
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. B. H. Caney, Judge, presiding. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation, of the state’s attorney of St. Clair county, in the City Court of-East St. Louis, against the North and South Rolling Stock. Company.
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Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. B. H. Caney, Judge, presiding. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, brought by the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation, of the state’s attorney of St. Clair county, in the City Court of-East St. Louis, against the North and South Rolling Stock. Company. A petition for leave to file the information having been granted, an information was filed, the substantial portions of which are as follows: “M. W. Schaefer, State’s attorney in and for said county, who sues for the People of the State of Illinois, in this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
To determine the propriety of the finding and judgment of the court in this ease, it is important, in the first place, to notice the precise nature of the issues which were submitted for trial. The information was filed by the state’s attorney against the “North and South Bolling Stock Company,” by that name, requiring it to answer by what warrant it claims to have, use and exercise the liberties, franchises and privileges of owning, buying, leasing, selling and operating railroad stock. The defendant answered by setting up its incorporation under the general law of this State in relation to…
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