Jones v. Town of Lake View
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Scales, Judge, presiding. On the 28th of April, 1890, the commissioners of Lincoln Park passed and entered an order of record that a drive-way be established, opened and constructed along the shore of Lake Michigan, in the town of Lake View, Cook county, Illinois, from Lincoln Park, at the south line of Belmont avenue, in said town, to a connection with Byron street, as opened, and particularly describing the…
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Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Scales, Judge, presiding. On the 28th of April, 1890, the commissioners of Lincoln Park passed and entered an order of record that a drive-way be established, opened and constructed along the shore of Lake Michigan, in the town of Lake View, Cook county, Illinois, from Lincoln Park, at the south line of Belmont avenue, in said town, to a connection with Byron street, as opened, and particularly describing the location, width, etc., of such driveway, and providing in detail for material to be used and mode of constructing the same.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
It is insisted that the act of the legislature, in force July 1, 1889, under which this proceeding was had, is unconstitutional, for the reason that it contravenes section 13, article 4, of the Constitution, providing: “No act hereafter passed shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.” And, second, that it is void, because the act of 1874, creating section 20, of which the later act is amendatory, was void under the foregoing provision of the Constitution, for the reason that an entirely new and independent subject, not embraced in the original act, was…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- People ex rel. Wilson v. SalomonIllinois Supreme Court · 1869
- City of Chicago v. BaerIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
- Goodwillie v. City of Lake ViewIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
- County of Rock Island v. SteeleIllinois Supreme Court · 1863
- Hundley & Rees v. Commissioners of Lincoln ParkIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
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