People ex rel. Caton v. Ottawa Hydraulic Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles Blanchard,' Judge, presiding. On the 28th of November, 1884, the State’s attorney filed in the circuit court of LaSalle county an information in the nature of a quo warranto, charging that on the 15th day of November, A. D; 1851, William H. W. Cushman, John Y. A. Hoes, Lorenzo Leland, George H. Norris, George E. Walker, William Hickling and A. H. Howland pretended to organize, and went through the forms of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles Blanchard,' Judge, presiding. On the 28th of November, 1884, the State’s attorney filed in the circuit court of LaSalle county an information in the nature of a quo warranto, charging that on the 15th day of November, A. D; 1851, William H. W. Cushman, John Y. A. Hoes, Lorenzo Leland, George H. Norris, George E. Walker, William Hickling and A. H. Howland pretended to organize, and went through the forms of organizing, a joint stock company or association, under the law of the State of Illinois approved February 10, 1849, under…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mulicey
The question presented for determination is, whether the court ruled properly in sustaining a demurrer to the information. It will be perceived the averments in the information, when stripped of all unnecessary verbiage, are, in substance and legal effect, that the company organized for the alleged purpose of establishing and carrying on a certain specified business, when, in truth and in fact, it intended to do nothing of the kind, but, on the contrary, intended to carry on altogether a different business, which it has alone pursued from the date of its organization to the present time, and…
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