Hunt v. Chicago & Dummy Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Mr. C. Beckwith, for plaintiff in error; that the “ act in regard to horse and dummy railroads” approved March 19, 1874, did not operate as a repeal of the city charier, cited Starr & Curtis’ Stat., 472. The bill was properly filed by the attorney general: R. S. Ch. 14, § 4.
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, J.
This was an information in chancery, filed by George Hunt, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, on the relation of John McConnell, George McConnell and Benjamin F. McConnell, to restrain said company from constructing or operating a railway upon certain streets of the city of Chicago. The information represents that said company claims to be a corporation organized under the general laws of the State, with authority to construct, maintain and operate a railway in the county of Cook; that it also claims that an ordinance was passed by the city council of the city of Chicago, April…
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