People ex rel. Law v. Dix

On November 3, 1916, the State’s attorney of Bureau county, on the relation of D. H. Law, by leave of court filed in the circuit court of Bureau county an information in the nature of quo zvarranto against A. W. Dix and six other persons, charging them with usurping the offices of members of the board of education of pretended High School District No. 506 and requiring them to show by what authority they exercised such offices and acted as a corporation. Two pleas were filed by the respondents, the first of which set out in detail proceedings for the organization of a high school district…