O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse Holdom, Judge, presiding. These several cases come to this court on writ of error to the Appellate Court for the First District.
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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse Holdom, Judge, presiding. These several cases come to this court on writ of error to the Appellate Court for the First District. On May 25, 1903, the Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, a corporation organized under the laws of-the State of Illinois and engaged in tire business of manufacturing and selling telephones, switchboards and electrical supplies, with its principal office in Chicago, filed its bill for an injunction in the superior…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The briefs and arguments in the case are exceedingly volitminous on behalf of plaintiffs in error. Thirteen distinct grounds of reversal have been urged, and many of these are subdivided into several heads. It would be impracticable within the reasonable limits of an opinion to even notice all of these points, even if it were profitable to do so. Most of them go to the sufficiency of the original order for the injunction and the petition to punish for contempt for the alleged violation of the writ, the right of trial by jury and of free speech, and of the guilt of the plaintiffs in error.…
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