Cooney v. Sweitzer
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Clarence N. Goodwin, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment awarding a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding “Robert M. Sweitzer, County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois,” to permit the petitioner, appellee, to inspect certain books described in the petition for the writ. Appellant demurred generally and specially, and elected to abide by his demurrer on its being overruled, and contends in the main that the words “County Clerk” following the name Robert M. Sweitzer, both in the petition and the judgment, are merely descriptio personae, and, without the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Kinsella v. CahnIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
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