Village of Hyde Park v. Corwith
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Sidney Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This cause has been elaborately argued in behalf of plaintiff, but the view taken by this court can be shortly stated. A succinct account of the transactions, out of which the condemnation judgments arose upon which the action is brought, may be found in the opinion of this court in The People v. Hyde Park, 117 Ill. 462. It is in all essential features the same case, except this is an action of debt on the condemnation judgments, and the former case was a mandamus to compel the village to pay such judgments out of a fund to be raised by a general tax. Should the present judgment be permitted…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Thatcher v. Village of Hyde ParkIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
3Cited by3 opinions
- Meeker v. City of ChicagoAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901
- City of Chicago v. MegartneyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1912
- Town of Cicero v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903