People ex rel. Moloney v. Kirk
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the' Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. This was an information brought by the Attorney General against the commissioners of Lincoln Park and the owners of the land adjacent to the shore of Lake Michigan, between Ohio street and Oak street, in the city of Chicago, for the purpose of canceling certain contracts entered into between said park commissioners and said property owners for the extension of the lake shore drive…
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Appeal from the' Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. This was an information brought by the Attorney General against the commissioners of Lincoln Park and the owners of the land adjacent to the shore of Lake Michigan, between Ohio street and Oak street, in the city of Chicago, for the purpose of canceling certain contracts entered into between said park commissioners and said property owners for the extension of the lake shore drive from Oak street to Ohio street, entered into under an act of the legislature of the State of Illinois passed in the year…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The first ground relied upon by the People to reverse the judgment of the.circuit court has been subdivided in the argument into the three following propositions: First, that the legislature of the State of Illinois has no power to alienate the submerged lands of Lake Michigan, as proposed by the act of June 4,1889; second, that Lake Michigan and its submerged lands (subject to the paramount right of the general government under the commerce clause of the constitution of the United States) can only be disposed of by the State of Illinois in aid of trade, commerce and the free navigation of…
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