Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Bartlett v. Busse

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 19, 1909PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter

This was a petition for a writ of mandamus filed on December 21, 1906, in the superior court of Cook county, at the relation of William A. Bartlett, A. Lincoln Shute and Robert J. Bennett, against Edward F. Dunne, then mayor of Chicago, and Michael Kenna, proprietor of two licensed dram-shops in the city of Chicago. Kenna demurred to the petition and Dunne answered. The petitioner demurred to the answer. The court by the same order sustained the demurrer to the petition and overruled the demurrer to the answer. Petitioner stood by its petition and by its demurrer to the answer. Thereupon…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. People ex rel. Billings v. BissellIllinois Supreme Court · 1857
  3. Boyne v. RyanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1893
  4. Brokaw v. Commissioners of HighwaysIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
  5. State ex rel. Wear v. FrancisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Beem v. DavisIdaho Supreme Court · 1918
  2. United States v. HraskyIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
  3. Bahnsen v. YoungSupreme Court of Georgia · 1924
  4. People ex rel. Better Broadcasting Council, Inc. v. KeaneAppellate Court of Illinois · 1973
  5. Gowan v. SmithMichigan Supreme Court · 1909

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