Fitzsimmons v. Miller

Mr. Presiding Justice Heard

delivered the opinion of the court.

By an act of the General Assembly entitled, “An Act for the establishment and maintenance of a Normal University,” in force February 18, 1857 (Laws 1857, p. 298, Cahill’s Ill. St. ch. 122, [f 599 et seq.) the Board of Education of the State of Illinois was made a corporation and by that name and style was to have perpetual succession, and have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property, to have and use a common seal and to alter the…