McGurn v. Board of Education
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliveb H. Hobton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by Peter McGurn, Frank B. Metzinger and Daniel Sullivan, against the Board of Education of the city of Chicago, and George Howland, the superintendent of schools of said city, to restrain them from assuming jurisdiction over school districts 4, 6 and 10, of township 38, north, of range 14, east of the 3d principal meridian, in Cook county, and from…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliveb H. Hobton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by Peter McGurn, Frank B. Metzinger and Daniel Sullivan, against the Board of Education of the city of Chicago, and George Howland, the superintendent of schools of said city, to restrain them from assuming jurisdiction over school districts 4, 6 and 10, of township 38, north, of range 14, east of the 3d principal meridian, in Cook county, and from attempting to take possession of the school property, school houses, books, papers or funds of said school districts, or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The main propositions urged by the appellant in support of the equity of his bill are, first, that the provisions of the statute under which the village of Hyde Park and the town of Lake have been annexed to the city of Chicago, even if valid, do not vest the Board of Education of the city of Chicago with the control of the common schools in the school districts heretofore existing in the annexed territory; and, second, that said statute, so far as it applies to the common "schools and school property in the annexed territory, is unconstitutional and void.
While the bill does not in terms…
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