People Ex Rel. Sandberg v. Grabs

The State’s attorney of Cook county filed a complaint in quo warranto in the superior court in the name of the People of the State of Illinois on the relation of Robert M. Sandberg, John M. Gravelot, Jr., and William H. Laue, in which he charged that B. H. Grabs, B. J. Schwoeffermann and Charles C. Donovan were usurping the offices of members of the board of fire and police commissioners of the city of Chicago Heights. The complaint alleged the city had adopted the commission form of municipal government in 1921; that on April 18, 1939, the electors of Chicago Heights adopted the Fire and…