People ex rel. Lockwood & Strickland Co. v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Carpenter, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed in the circuit court of Cook county by the People of the State of Illinois, by John J. Healy, State’s attorney of that county, on the relation of the appellants, against the city of Chicago, the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, the Chicago Junction Railway Company, and others, seeking to have certain ordinances of said city providing for the elevation of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George A. Carpenter, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed in the circuit court of Cook county by the People of the State of Illinois, by John J. Healy, State’s attorney of that county, on the relation of the appellants, against the city of Chicago, the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, the Chicago Junction Railway Company, and others, seeking to have certain ordinances of said city providing for the elevation of tracks of the appellee companies declared void, so far as they purport to give the appellee companies authority to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The claim is made that the ordinances in question operate to vacate a part of the streets and that they are uncertain and ambiguous in terms. The first ordinance, it is conceded, is the same one that was considered and passed upon by this court in Weage v. Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Co. 227 Ill. 421. What was said in that case effectually disposes of all questions as to the right of the city council to vacate, obstruct or narrow the streets in question. While the precise question raised here as to the uncertainty of that ordinance was not passed upon in that case, manifestly the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. Des Moines Navigation & Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1892
- People ex rel. Morrison v. CregierIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. City of CarlinvilleIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
- Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad v. DunbarIllinois Supreme Court · 1880
- Brush v. City of CarbondaleIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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- Thompson v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1957
- Klafter v. State Board of ExaminersIllinois Supreme Court · 1913
- Baltis v. Village of WestchesterIllinois Supreme Court · 1954
- Maffit v. City of DecaturIllinois Supreme Court · 1926
- Morris v. City of IndianapolisIndiana Supreme Court · 1911
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