Legal Opinion
Brown v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided November 18, 1953No. Gen. 46,212PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kiley
This is an appeal by defendants from an interlocutory order restraining defendants from interfering with the filling of a slip on the west side of the Calumet River in Chicago, Illinois.
The complaint in Count I, seeks a permanent injunction and in Count II, at law, seeks $200,000 damages. The allegations in the counts are identical.
Exhibits attached to the complaint disclose that September 8, 1952 the Department of Public Works and Building’s, Division of Waterways of the State of Illinois granted a permit to the C. & W. I. RR. Co. and Rail To Water Transfer Corp. to fill Slip #1 on the west…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Deer Park Civic Ass'n v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1952
- City of Chicago v. Chicago City Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1906
- Jackie Cab Co. v. Chicago Park DistrictIllinois Supreme Court · 1937
- Earhart v. YoungTennessee Supreme Court · 1939
- Kent v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1939
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