Fitzpatrick v. City of Joliet
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the County Court of Will county; the Hon. David Willard, Judge, presiding. These were proceedings by the city of Joliet to condemn land for a sewer. The cases were tried and judgments rendered in March, 1874, and brought to this court by appeal. The appeals were dismissed and the causes brought here again, by writ of error. The cases are alike.
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Writ of Error to the County Court of Will county; the Hon. David Willard, Judge, presiding. These were proceedings by the city of Joliet to condemn land for a sewer. The cases were tried and judgments rendered in March, 1874, and brought to this court by appeal. The appeals were dismissed and the causes brought here again, by writ of error. The cases are alike. They were considered at the September term, 1876, and it was then ordered in each case that the judgment be reversed. The views of the court were expressed in an opinion then filed, as follows: “ This was a writ of error to the county…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
We find no reason for modifying, in any manner, what was formerly said in these cases as to the questions of law discussed in the former opinion. On a closer examination of the record, we find that after the several objectors had been heard in their order, and had respectively made challenges of jurors whose places had been supplied by “talesmen,” and before the panel was turned over to the city for examination, “the court asked the several objectors if they desired further to pass upon the jurors presented, and stated that if the objectors were through the jurors would be turned over to the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Guild v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
3Cited by3 opinions
- Allen v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Gordon v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Illinois, Iowa & Minnesota Railway Co. v. FreemanIllinois Supreme Court · 1904