Massey v. People ex rel. Westcott
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson county; the Hon. E. D. Youngblood, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The State’s attorney of Jefferson county commenced this suit in the circuit court of said county by filing, by leave of said court, an information in the nature of a quo ivarranto, on the relation of Thomas E. Westcott and Barton C. Wells, against the appellant, Henry C. Massey, charging" the appellant with usurping the office of aider-man from the first ward in the city of Mt. Vernon, in said county. Appellant appeared and presented his defense to the information in three pleas, to which replications were filed. The appellant demurred generally and specially to the replications, and the…
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