Sings v. City of Joliet
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge, presiding. On July ii, 1906, Mary Sings, Edith G. Evans, America Miller, Alcyone Lewis, Arvilla A. Withrow and William Bissell, plaintiffs in error, brought an action in the circuit court of Will county against the city of Joliet, defendant in error, for damages for the destruction by defendant in error of an apartment house and its contents owned by plaintiffs in error in said city.
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge, presiding. On July ii, 1906, Mary Sings, Edith G. Evans, America Miller, Alcyone Lewis, Arvilla A. Withrow and William Bissell, plaintiffs in error, brought an action in the circuit court of Will county against the city of Joliet, defendant in error, for damages for the destruction by defendant in error of an apartment house and its contents owned by plaintiffs in error in said city. The declaration contáins four counts. The first two will not be set out for a reason which appears from the opinion which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
We regard the first and second counts as fatally defective. It is unnecessary to discuss them in view of our conclusions as to the sufficiency of the remaining counts. In what is hereinafter said regarding the narr., reference is had only to the third and fourth counts.
Section 2 of article 2 of the constitution of the State provides that no person shall be deprived of property without due process of law. Plaintiffs in error insist that when that clause is given proper meaning it appears therefrom that the city was without lawful authority to pass the ordinance made a part of the declaration…
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