Renwick v. Hall

Citations

• 84 Ill. 162

Syllabus

<p>1. Jurisdiction in chancery—to determine legality of corporation. By our statute, an information in the nature of a quo warranto will lie where 'any association or number of persons shall act, within this StateJ as a corporation without being legally incorporated, and a court of chancery has no jurisdiction to determine the question as to whether such association is legally incorporated or not.</p> <p>2. Quo warranto—proper remedy to test legality of organization of school district. If a number of persons assume to act as school trustees of a district, claimed by them to be legally organized, the question as to the legal existence of such district can only he tested by filing an information in the nature of a quo warranto.</p>