Council of Glencoe v. People ex rel. Owen

This appeal is prosecuted to reverse a judgment of the court below awarding a peremptory mandamus against “ The council of the village of Glencoe.” Several errors are assigned, which we shall proceed to pass on in the order of their presentation by the counsel for the respondent. There was no appearance by the respondent before judgment was rendered, and it is insisted the respondent was not properly brought before the court.

“The village of Glencoe” was incorporated by an act of the legislature, approved March 29,1869, by section 1, article 2 whereof, it is enacted: “The municipal government…