People Ex Rel. Heydenreich v. Lyons

The People of the State, on the relation of Charles Heydenreich, Henry Rynberk, Willard Ellett, Lafayette D. Jennings and Milton Huntoon, charge in a petition filed in this court that they are poor and indigent persons, citizens of Illinois and residents of the city of Chicago, and that they have applied to the respondent, Leo M. Lyons, as relief officer of the city, for the necessaries of life or the means to procure them, but that he has denied their applications, asserting he is forbidden to grant assistance by section 16. of “an act to revise the law in relation to paupers.” As amended by…