People ex rel. Chritzman v. Crossley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. E. S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed on the relation of Jacob Chritzman, Stephen G. Paddock, Charles Baldwin and Jacob L. Sweet, against George W. Crossley, Hiram W. Hubbard, Entiben B. Foster and Levi R. Jerome, questioning the validity of the election of the defendants as directors of the Illinois Masons’ Benevolent Society.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, on the relation of appellants against appellees, to determine the question of the right of the latter to hold the office of directors of the Illinois Masons’ Benevolent Society, to which office they claim to have been elected at the annual meeting of the society on April 2, 1873.
The real question presented by the record is, Avh ether at such election the members had the right to Amte by proxy. If so, and the votes by proxy Avere properly received, the appellees Avere elected, otherwise not.
The society was organized under the act of…
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