Legal Opinion
People ex rel. Village of Burnham v. City of Chicago
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided February 16, 1909No. Gen. No. 14,960PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Mandamus. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Julian W. Mack, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Peesiding Justice Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court awarding a writ of mandamus on the petition of the village of Burnham against the city of Chicago.
The petition alleges that the “Act to create Sanitary Districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois Bivers,” approved May 29, 1899, created and fixed the boundaries of the Sanitary District known “As the Sanitary District of the city of Chicago; ” that section twenty-six of that act is as follows :
“Whenever in any such sanitary district there shall be a city,…
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