McGann v. People ex rel. Coffeen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. This is a petition for mandamus, filed by appellee on September 14, 1899, against the appellant, as commissioner of public works of the city of Chicago, to compel him to issue and deliver to the relator a permit in writing, authorizing the relator to lay down and construct a switch track in accordance with the terms and provisions of an ordinance, passed by the city of Chicago on February 3,1896. Appellant filed a general…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The petition for mandamus in this case does not show, that any petition of the owners of land, representing any of the frontage along any part of either of the streets, upon which it was proposed to lay the switch track, was signed or presented to or filed with the city council of the city of Chicago before the city council passed the ordinance of February 3,1896, under which the relator claims the right to lay down and operate such switch track.
First — A petition, signed by the owners of the land representing the frontage hereinafter stated, is a prerequisite to the passage of a valid…
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