Legal Opinion
Klinger v. People ex rel. Conkle
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided October 31, 1889PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Piatt county; the Hon. James F. Hughes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
When this ease was decided by the Appellate Court of the Third District, the following opinion was delivered by Mr. Justice Pleasants of that court:
“This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by the State’s attorney of Piatt county, against Klinger, Vandervort and Wooding, charging, in separate counts, that respondents usurped the office of drainage commissioners of the town of Blue Ridge; of drainage commissioners of drainage district No. 1, of said town; and of drainage commissioners of, in and for certain pretended drainage districts or systems of drainage, which they…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Borah Drainage District v. AnkenbrandIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
- People ex rel. Harrison v. Commissioners of Mineral Marsh Drainage Dist.Illinois Supreme Court · 1901