Legal Opinion
Lenit v. Powers
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 19, 1969No. Gen. 53,040PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dempsey
A petition for a writ of mandamus was broughtix) compel the calling of an annual meeting of the membership of the Chicago Law Institute. The petition was dismissed and this appeal followed.
The petitioner, Lawrence Lenit, is a member of the Law Institute; another petitioner, William Hettleman — also a member of the institute — was dismissed from the cause early in the proceedings. The respondent, Chicago Law Institute, is a private corporation, created by a special act of the Illinois Legislature (Laws of Illinois, 1857, p 1186) which corporation operated and maintained a law library located…
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