St. Clair Housing Authority v. Quirin

The appellant in this case is a municipal corporation organized pursuant to statutory authority and for statutory purposes to provide low-rent housing, pursuant to authority of an act of the legislature known as the Housing Authorities act, as passed in 1934 and amended in 1937. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 67½.) The State Housing Board mentioned in that act was created by amendment to the General Corporation act, approved March 19, 1934. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 32, par. 520.) The appellant corporation exercises the power of eminent domain and has broad powers as to the issuance of bonds…