People ex rel. Farrington v. Whitcomb

This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by Addison Farrington and a number of other persons, in the Whiteside circuit court, at the May term, 1869, against George A. Whitcomb and others, who were acting as mayor and common council of the town of Morrison, in that county. The information charged that the town is located on a part of section eighteen, in township twenty-one, north of range five, east of the fourth principal meridian, and embraces within its boundaries about one hundred and sixty acres; that the town is and has been for a long time past, incorporated under…