People ex rel. Reid v. Zellar
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for quo warranto, filed in the circuit court of Kane county on behalf of the People, on the relation of Frank R. Reid, State’s attorney, against appellees, C. J. Zellar, L. P. Myers and John Ashe, to determine the validity of the organization of drainage district No. I of the town-. ship of Sugar Grove, in said county, and the right of appellees to act as…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for quo warranto, filed in the circuit court of Kane county on behalf of the People, on the relation of Frank R. Reid, State’s attorney, against appellees, C. J. Zellar, L. P. Myers and John Ashe, to determine the validity of the organization of drainage district No. I of the town-. ship of Sugar Grove, in said county, and the right of appellees to act as commissioners of the same. Upon the filing of the petition a summons was duly issued and the defendants appeared, setting up, by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The only question for our decision is whether the records of the drainage district as set up in the plea show a valid organization.
The district was organized under the act providing for drainage for agricultural and sanitary purposes. (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, chap. 42, p. 799.) Section 11 of that act provides that when the case involves a system of combined drainage in one town and it is proposed that the cost shall be borne proportionately by the several parties benefited, a petition addressed to the drainage commissioners shall be presented to the town clerk, signed by a majority, in number, of…
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