People ex rel. Greer v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill in chancery. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Chables M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1908. Statement Tby the Court.
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Bill in chancery. Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Chables M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1908. Statement Tby the Court. This was an amended bill in chancery filed in the name of the People of the State of Illinois by the State’s Attorney of Cook county on the relation of G-reer, a citizen and elector of Chicago, in his own behalf as well as that of the general public, to have adjudged void and invalid a certain ordinance of the city of Chicago purporting to vacate a portion of South Troy street and portions of two alleys leading…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bakeb
The. power to vacate streets and alleys is given to the city council of cities by paragraph 7 of article V of the Cities and Villages Act. The ordinance does not by its terms vacate a plat, but vacates portions of a street and alleys, and no deed of vacation by the lot owners was required. It is not contended that the ordinance was not adopted in the manner prescribed by chapter 145, R. S.
Whether the motives which influenced the city council in adopting the ordinance in question are proper, cannot be judicially inquired into. People ex rel. Friend v. Wieboldt, 233 Ill. 572. It is to be…
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