Clowry v. Holmes
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ ob Error to the Appellate Court for the Eirst District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding. This was an action for damages, commenced on March 4, 1908, in the municipal court of Chicago, by defendants in error, against plaintiffs in error, under the provisions of section 9 of the Dram-shop act.
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Writ ob Error to the Appellate Court for the Eirst District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding. This was an action for damages, commenced on March 4, 1908, in the municipal court of Chicago, by defendants in error, against plaintiffs in error, under the provisions of section 9 of the Dram-shop act. (Hurd’s Stat. 1908, p. 890.) A trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of defendants in error, and plaintiffs in error, on July 7, 1908, sued out a writ of error from the Appellate Court for the First…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The sole question presented for decision upon this record is the constitutionality of the paragraph of the Municipal Court act hereinbefore set out. The municipal court was created and the Municipal Court act was passed by virtue of the powers conferred upon the legislature by section 34 of article 4 of the constitution, which section became effective December 5, 1904. (Hurd’s Stat. 1908, p. 60.) That section of the constitution provides that the legislature shall have power, subject to the conditions and limitations therein contained, to pass any law, local, special or general, for the…
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