Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 246 |
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... amended petition it was sought to avoid objections pointed out in the decisions of this court to the petitions in those cases . While the amended petition is more lengthy than those in the cases heretofore brought before us and some of ...
... amended petition it was sought to avoid objections pointed out in the decisions of this court to the petitions in those cases . While the amended petition is more lengthy than those in the cases heretofore brought before us and some of ...
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... amendments thereto , and that the office was not abolished or affected by the adoption by the city of Chicago of the ... amendment to the constitution of the United States . This question was passed upon and decided contrary to pe ...
... amendments thereto , and that the office was not abolished or affected by the adoption by the city of Chicago of the ... amendment to the constitution of the United States . This question was passed upon and decided contrary to pe ...
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... amend such charters it operates as a general law and not as special legislation . Gage v . Chicago , 203 Ill . 26 . The proposed improvements are local , within the mean- ing of the constitution . The test of a local improvement is not ...
... amend such charters it operates as a general law and not as special legislation . Gage v . Chicago , 203 Ill . 26 . The proposed improvements are local , within the mean- ing of the constitution . The test of a local improvement is not ...
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... amended ; that when the court is satisfied that the ordi- nances are alike in substance , it shall enter an order con- solidating the petitions and designate therein one of the municipalities to conduct the proceedings thereafter ; that ...
... amended ; that when the court is satisfied that the ordi- nances are alike in substance , it shall enter an order con- solidating the petitions and designate therein one of the municipalities to conduct the proceedings thereafter ; that ...
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... amend the cross - bills . The defendants did not avail themselves of the leave so given and no amendment was made . The cause was heard upon the original bill , answers and replications , and evidence , oral and documentary , heard by ...
... amend the cross - bills . The defendants did not avail themselves of the leave so given and no amendment was made . The cause was heard upon the original bill , answers and replications , and evidence , oral and documentary , heard by ...
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Page 209 - It exists only in contemplation of law and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 543 - A child so adopted shall be deemed, for the purposes of inheritance by such child, and his descendants and husband or wife, and other legal consequences and incidents of the natural relation of parents and children, the child of the parents by adoption, the same as if he had been born to them in lawful wedlock...
Page 278 - Subject to the two leading prohibitions that their charges shall not be unjust or unreasonable, and that they shall not unjustly discriminate, so as to give undue preference or disadvantage to persons or traffic similarly circumstanced, the act to regulate commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law...
Page 219 - Neither the state courts nor the legislatures, by giving the tax a particular name or by the use of some form of words, can take away our duty to consider its nature and effect.
Page 307 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Page 483 - Board in relation to such switch, shall be subject to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the State.
Page 534 - by irreparable injury, is not meant such injury as is beyond the possibility of repair or beyond possible compensation in damages, nor necessarily great injury or great damage; but that species of injury, whether great or small, that ought not to be submitted to on the one hand, or inflicted on...
Page 148 - No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, village, or on any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad; and the franchises so granted shall not be transferred without similar assent first obtained.
Page 558 - Payments of death benefits shall be to the families, heirs, blood relatives, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon the member.
Page 209 - They may exclude the foreign corporation entirely; they may restrict its business to particular localities, or they may exact such security for the performance of its contracts with their citizens as in their judgment will best promote the public interest. The whole matter rests in their discretion.