City of Chicago v. Reid

The decision of this appeal has been delayed much beyond the time at which it would have been made had we not hoped since the submission of the cause and its first consideration by us, for decisive utterances from the Supreme Court on some of the questions discussed by counsel. But the cause pending in the Supreme Court, to which we looked for such help, has been disposed of on a question of jurisdiction without an investigation of its merits or the propositions of law involved in it. We have, therefore, re-investigated the case at bar and reached an unanimous opinion that although in many of…