State ex rel. McIlhany v. Stewart

This is an application for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto.

The information proposed to be filed and acted on states, that at an election of directors of the St. Charles branch of the Southern Bank of St. Louis, on the 11th March, 1861, the relators were duly elected, and afterwards took the oaths and qualified, according to law, for the performance of the duties of such directors ; that the defendants, who were also voted for as directors, but who did not receive a majority of the votes cast", have usurped the office of directors, and are now illegally exercising…