Galpin v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill in equity. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. Statement I>y the Court.
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Bill in equity. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Lockwood Honore, Judge, presiding. Statement I>y the Court. Complainant, Homer K. GJ-alpin, instituted this cause by a bill in equity in the nature of a bill of interpleader which he filed on December 26, 1907. On June 29, 1909, he filed his second amended and supplemental bill and thereby eliminated an amended and supplemental bill and an amendment to the amended and supplemental bill, both of which had been filed in the meantime. By the second amended and supplemental bill complainant shows that, during the two years…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Chytraus
The legal difficulties, which presented themselves to the clerk of the Municipal Court and which undoubtedly induced him to file the bill of complaint herein and which are now presented to us, arise entirely from the passage and the language of the Municipal Court act. That act was first passed in 1905. It having soon become apparent that as first passed it needed revision, an act amending various sections thereof and adding other sections thereto was passed in 1907 and approved on June third of that year. The act establishes a new court in and for the City of Chicago for the purposes,…
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