People ex rel. Magoon v. City of Rockford

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

The People of the State of Illinois on the relation of Ezra P. Magoon filed a petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Winnebago county, to compel the City of Rockford and Kelley-Williamson Company, a corporation, to remove, or cause to be removed from Elm street (a public street in said city), gasoline tanks, pumps and concrete base, posts or poles together with the advertising signs and electric lights thereon, and the automobiles of the customers of the last-named defendant.

The complaint charges, “that the defendant,…