McDonald v. Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding.
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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. The circuit court of Cook county sustained a demurrer to a declaration filed herein by plaintiff in error August 7, 1896. Under an order granting leave to file an amended declaration, plaintiff in error, on the 15th day of January, 1898, filed the following declaration: “William F. McDonald, plaintiff, by William J. Strong, his attorney, for his amended declaration, by leave of court, complains of the Illinois…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Boggs
Counsel for plaintiff in error, in support of his insistence the circuit court erred in holding the declaration did not state a cause of action, says: “The question presented by the declaration and demurrer (when shorn of legal phraseology) is simply this: Is it lawful for all the employers in any line of industry to combine and agree that they will not hire any of each other’s employees who have left the service of any one of them, unless the employer whose service he has left gives his consent that such employee may be employed? Or, to put it in another form: Is it lawful for all the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. JenkinsIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
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