People v. Commissioners of Wild Cat Special Drainage District

This was a proceeding by information in the nature of quo warranto to test the validity of the organization of the Wild Cat Special Drainage District of Champaign County.

The plea averred that a petition was presented in proper form, signed by the Illinois Agricultural Company and B. J. Gifford, owning a major part of the land and constituting more than one-third of the owners of the.land in the proposed district; that due notice of a hearing was given, which was attended by the petitioners, and by Helen M. Truitt, who owned all the land in the proposed district not owned by petitioners, that…