People ex rel. National Cigar Co. v. Dulaney
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an application for a writ of mandamus, by the National Cigar Company against the Commissioners of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, to compel the performance of a contract for the hiriug'of convict labor. The material facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This is an original suit in this court. It is a petition in the name of the People of the State, on the relation of the National Cigar Company, to compel the Commissioners of the State Penitentiary, located at Joliet, to perform a contract or contracts which, it is alleged, relators have with such commissioners for convict labor.
Two contracts are set forth in the amended petition. One is dated July 12, 1876, and is between the Commissioners of the Penitentiary of the first part, and Ashmond Fox, George A. Head and Aurelius E. Stevens of the second part, and by that agreement the parties of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- County of St. Clair v. People ex rel. KellerIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
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