Kough v. Hoehler

This is an appeal from a decree of the superior court of Cook County denying the motion of the defendant, John S. Boyle, State’s Attorney of Cook County, to dismiss the complaint and amendment thereto and allowing the motion of the plaintiffs to strike the answer of the defendant, Fred K. Hoehler, Director of the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Illinois, and permanently enjoining the defendants from enforcing against the plaintiffs the provisions of sections 19 to 25, inclusive, of article IX of the Mental Health Code of the State of Illinois, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 91J2,…