City of Chicago v. Sansum
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John G. Rogers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
This is an appeal from a judgment of the court below awarding a peremptory mandamus for the payment of a judgment held by appellee, by assignment from one Peter Marr, against appellant. Several preliminary objections are taken to the jurisdiction of the court below, but they may be disposed of with very few remarks.
The duty here sought to be enforced rests upon appellant as a corporate body, and there is, therefore, no impropriety in directing the writ to it. Dillon on Municipal Corporations, sec. 701; Village of Glencoe v. The People, 78 Ill. 382.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Council of Glencoe v. People ex rel. OwenIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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