Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad v. Greer

This writ of error challenges the constitutionality of the act of the General Assembly adopted March 26, 1874, entitled “An act in relation to courts of record,” (1 Starr & Curt. 1200,) and also the constitutionality of section 21 of the original act as amended by the act of May 10, 1901. (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, p. 631.)

Section 21 of the act provides: “A city court consisting of one or more judges, not exceeding five, and not exceeding one judge for every fifty thousand inhabitants, may be organized and established under this act in any city which contains at least three thousand inhabitants,…