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  • Hooper v. Rooney

    293 Ill. 370 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1920

    (Sixby v. Chicago City Railway Co. 260 Ill. 478 ; Mann v. Brown, 263 id. 394; Weil v. Federal Life Ins. Co. 264 id. 425; 18 Ency. of Pl. & Pr. 1260, and cases cited.) In Weil v. Federal Life Ins. … People v. Olsen, 215 Ill. 620 ; People v. City of Rock Island, 215 id. 488; People v. Board of Supervisors, 185 id. 288.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Bunfill v. People

    154 Ill. 640 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 14, 1895

    This construction of the words used in the statute is sustained by Fahnestock v. State, 102 Ind. 156 , and Commonwealth v. Cook, 12 Metc. 93 . … The judgment of the circuit court of Brown county is reversed and the cause remanded. Reversed and remanded.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Myers v. Cummins, Director of Labor

    9 Ill. 2d 582 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 26, 1956

    Crouch v. Murphy, 390 Ill. 112 ; cf. Salt Lake Transportation Co. v. Board of Review, 5 Utah 2d 87 , 296 P.2d 983 . Section 212 makes an exception to the definition of employment contained in section 206. … (Mohler and Pratt v. Department of Labor, 409 Ill. 79 ; Outboard Marine and Manufacturing Co. v. Gordon, 403 Ill. 523 ; Local No. 658 v. Brown Shoe Co. 403 Ill. 484 .)

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • People v. Holt

    2014 IL 116989 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 29, 2014

    People v. Shum, 207 Ill. 2d 47, 57 (2003). As the Supreme Court made clear in Cooper v. … In Pate v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Siwinski v. Ret. Bd. of the Firemen's Annuity

    429 Ill. Dec. 301 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 22, 2019

    Cited 0 timesPublishedNo opinion text
  • Sargent Shriver Nat'l Ctr. On Poverty Law, Inc. v. Bd. of Educ. of Chi.

    427 Ill. Dec. 739 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 20, 2019

    Cited 0 timesPublishedNo opinion text
  • President of Odell v. Schroeder

    58 Ill. 353 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 15, 1871

    They did not direct the act to be done, either as a board or as individuals; they, Ave must suppose, had no idea the officer would do anything more than the laAvrequired. … The City of Chicago v. Hasley, 25 Ill. 595 . The judgment is therefore reversed and the cause remanded. Judgment reversed.

    Cited 43 timesPublished
  • Ewing v. Runkle

    20 Ill. 448 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1858

    And so, Chief Justice Marshal, in the case of the United States v. Hooe, 3 Crunch R. 88. … In the language of Grose, Justice, in the case of Meux et al., qui tam., v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Board of Education of Township High School District No. 201 v. Morton Council, West Suburban Teachers Union, Local 571

    50 Ill. 2d 258 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 28, 1972

    This situation continued until September 9 when the Board filed its complaint for injunction. … (People v. Kostos, 21 Ill.2d 451 ; People v. Chambers, 9 Ill.2d 83 .)

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Johnson v. RETIREMENT BD. OF POLICEMEN'S ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND

    114 Ill. 2d 518 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 19, 1986

    (City of Springfield v. Board of Election Commissioners (1985), 105 Ill. 2d 336, 340-41 .) … (See Board of Trustees v. Christy (1980), 246 Ga. 553, 555 , 272 S.E.2d 288, 291 .)

    Cited 73 timesPublished
  • Stowell v. Prentiss

    323 Ill. 309 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 28, 1926

    (Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society v. Board of Review, 290 Ill. 108 .) … Schmidt v. Brown, 226 Ill. 590 ; McKenzie v. Elliott, 134 id. 156; Vail v. Mix, 74 id. 127.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • UNITED BISCUIT CO. OF AM. v. Voss Truck Lines, Inc.

    407 Ill. 488 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 27, 1950

    (Wilson v. Board of Trustees, 133 Ill. 443 ; Wabash Railroad Co. v. Coon Run Drainage and Levee Dist, 194 Ill. 310 .) This principle was overlooked at the time the Miller and other like cases were announced. … (McLeod v. Railway, 58 Vt. 727 , 6 Atl. 648 .) The characteristic of a transitory action is that the right of action follows the person of the defendant. (Brown v. Brown, 155 Tenn. 530 , 296 S.W. 356 .)

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • People v. Klaeren II

    Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 18, 2002

    App. 3d at 1022 , quoting Wadell v. Board of Zoning Appeals , 136 Conn. 1, 8 , 68 A.2d 152, 155 (1949). … See Balmoral Racing Club , 151 Ill. 2d at 405 (the starting point, in any due process analysis, is a determination of whether one of these protectable interests–life, liberty or property–is present); Brown v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • People v. Miller

    315 Ill. 411 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 17, 1925

    (People v. Goodman, 283 Ill. 414 .) Here the indictment only charged one crime, — receiving stolen property. … (Tobin v. People, 104 Ill. 565 .)

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Look v. Bruninga

    348 Ill. 183 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 23, 1932

    This court considered a very similar situation in Schmidt v. Brown , 226 Ill. 590 . In that case there were involved two adjoining tracts of land, designated as the Brown farm and the Smith farm. … Dexter v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Seavey v. Glass

    315 Ill. 611 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 17, 1925

    Brown asked her to stay. Morris asked Mrs. Brown about her property and what kind of a paper she wanted him to draw, and she told him Mrs. … Weston v. Teufel, 213 Ill. 291 ; Leonard v. Burtle, 226 id. 422 ; Yess v. Yess, 255 id. 414 ; Gum v. Reep, 275 id. 503; Snyder v. Steele, 287 id. 159; Wunderlich v. Buerger, 287 id. 440.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Fujimura v. Chicago Transit Authority

    67 Ill. 2d 506 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 20, 1977

    Catholic Diocese (1974), 57 Ill. 2d 384, 387 , Haymes v. Catholic Bishop (1968), 41 Ill. 2d 336, 344 , Lorton v. Brown County Community Unit School District No. 1 (1966), 35 Ill. 2d 362, 365 , and Harvey v. … (Kobylanski v. Chicago Board of Education (1976), 63 Ill. 2d 165, 175 .)

    Cited 43 timesPublished
  • Drake v. Merkle

    153 Ill. 318 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 30, 1894

    The case of Jackson v. Jackson, 144 Ill. 274 , was a bill brought to review a decree in partition. … In Hill v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Porter v. Ewing

    24 Ill. 617 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1860

    By it Brown was to place one thousand dollars in the hands of Porter, who was to operate with it as he saw proper, taking titles to property purchased or choses in action obtained for or with it, in the name of Brown, and … Until Porter was in a position to demand a deed of Brown without doing anything more on his part, he had not such an equitable estate in the premises, as to entitle his widow to dower in them.' Owen v. Robbins, 19 Ill.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People v. Tiller

    94 Ill. 2d 303 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 17, 1982

    People v. Jones (1982), 94 Ill. 2d 275 . The victims of the murders were Samuel Nersesian, Debra Brown, and Richard Stoltz. … Hubbard (1973), 55 Ill. 2d 142 ; People v. Brown (1962), 26 Ill. 2d 308 .)

    Cited 156 timesPublished

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