Braceville Coal Co. v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Grundy county; the Hon. A. B. Gordon, Judge, presiding. The appellant was tried before a justice of the peace, and found guilty of violating an act of the legislature entitled “An act to provide for the weekly payment of wages by corporations,” approved April 23, 1891, and the penalty of fifty dollars imposed, for which, and costs, judgment was rendered accordingly.
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Appeal from the County Court of Grundy county; the Hon. A. B. Gordon, Judge, presiding. The appellant was tried before a justice of the peace, and found guilty of violating an act of the legislature entitled “An act to provide for the weekly payment of wages by corporations,” approved April 23, 1891, and the penalty of fifty dollars imposed, for which, and costs, judgment was rendered accordingly. The ease was taken by appeal to the county court of Grundy county, where a trial was had by the court, a jury having been waived, and appellant again found guilty and the penalty of fifty dollars…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shops
The principles that must control the decision of this case were announced in Frorer et al. v. The People, 141 Ill. 171. Unless we are prepared to recede from the doctrine of that case, and the subsequent case of Ramsey v. The People, 142 Ill. 380, the act under consideration must be likewise held unconstitutional and void.
Section 2 of article 2 of the constitution of this State guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or prop-, erty without due process of law. We said in the Frorer case,j the words “due process of law” “are to be held synonymous with ‘the law of the…
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