Straley v. House of Good Shepherd

This writ of error was sued out to review a decree of the circuit court of Cook county dismissing the bill for injunction of John F. Straley, plaintiff in error, against the House of the Good Shepherd, (a corporation,) Sister Agnes, superioress of the House of the Good Shepherd, the city of Chicago, Eugene Pike, city comptroller, and Charles Sergei, city treasurer of the city of Chicago.

The bill alleges that appellant is a citizen and tax-payer of the city of Chicago; that the House of the Good Shepherd is an institution maintained as an instrumentality of the Roman Catholic church;' that it…