# Grace v. Howlett

> Illinois Supreme Court · April 17, 1972 · 51 Ill. 2d 478

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9885137

## Case

- **Full name:** MICHAEL J. GRACE, Appellee, v. MICHAEL J. HOWLETT, Auditor of Public Accounts, Et Al., Appellants
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** April 17, 1972
- **Citations:** 51 Ill. 2d 478; 283 N.E.2d 474; 1972 Ill. LEXIS 451
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Davis
- **Judges:** Paul C. Blume
- **Cited by:** 54 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9885137

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a statute that limited recovery for certain automobile accident victims was an arbitrary and unreasonable classification in violation of the special -9- legislation clause
- explaining that although the equal protection clause and the special legislation clause "cover much of the same terrain, they are not duplicates”
- holding unconstitutional an act concerning the compensation of automobile accident victims

## Opinion text

MR. JUSTICE DAVIS, dissenting in part and concurring in part:
I join in the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Underwood, except that part thereof which expresses the view that section 609 of the Act is constitutional. On that issue, I concur with the opinion of the majority.

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