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  • Straley v. House of Good Shepherd

    281 Ill. 604 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 19, 1917

    Pr. sec. 299; 16 Ency. of PI. & Pr. 609; Weber v. Fitzgerald, ante, p. 330; Souzer v. DeMeyer, 2 Paige, 574 ; Ocala Foundry and Machine Works v. Lester, 49 Fla. 347 , and cases there cited.) … In Leacraft v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Village of Averyville v. City of Peoria

    335 Ill. 106 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 20, 1929

    (McGurn v. … (Jones v. State, 153 Ind. 440 .) In People v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • City of Lake View v. MacRitchie

    134 Ill. 203 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 31, 1890

    (Canal Trustees v. Lynch, 5 Gilm. 521 ; Wallace v. Curtiss, 36 Ill. 156 ; Fowler v. Deakman, 84 id. 130 ; Snell v. Brown, 71 id. 133; Finney v. Condon, 86 id. 78; Stose v. Heissler, 120 id. 433.)

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Raintree Homes, Inc. v. Village of Long Grove

    209 Ill. 2d 248 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 18, 2004

    Carroll v. Paddock, 199 Ill. 2d 16, 22 (2002); Kedzie & 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge, 156 Ill. 2d 112, 116 (1993). … People v. Glisson, 202 Ill. 2d 499, 505 (2002).

    Cited 255 timesPublished
  • Reigard v. McNeil

    38 Ill. 400 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1865

    The same rule was adopted in the case of Tillson v. Moulton, 23 Ill. 628 , and in Brown v. Gaffney, 28 Ill. 149 . And these cases only recognize the rule as previously announced in Miller v. … Hopkins, 15 Ill. 519 ; Smith v. Sackett, 15 Ill. 528 ; Williams v. Bishop, 15 Ill. 553 ; Ferguson v. Sutphen, 3 Gilm. 547 .

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • McGhee v. Wright

    16 Ill. 555 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1855

    Gray v. Me Canee, 14 Ill. R. 344; Bennett v. Farrer, et al., 2 Gil. R. 598 ; Lessee Hickey et al. v. Stewart, 3 How. U. S. R. 761; Wilcox v. McConnell, 13 Pet. R. 511; 1 Pet. R. 340, 666, 668; 2 Public Land Laws U. … S., Nos. 85, 93, 99, 140; Dickinson v. Brown, 9 Smeed and Marsh. R. 130; Mitchell v. Cobb, 13 Ala. R. 137 ; Lewis v. Lewis, 9 Mo. R. 183; Cunningham v. Ashley, 7 Eng. Ark. R. 296.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Greeley v. People

    60 Ill. 19 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1871

    It is true, the court held, in The People v. … Larned v. City of Chicago, 34 Ill. 203 . This brings us to an objection that is well taken.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Chicago, Pekin & Southwestern Railroad v. Raymond

    97 Ill. 212 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 26, 1880

    capital stock for the years 1873 and 1874, in the counties of Woodford, LaSalle, Livingston and Tazewell, and also so much of the tax as was levied upon the increased valuation of the tangible property made by the State Board … See The Pacific Hotel Co. v. Lieb et al. 83 Ill. 602 ; Huck et al. v. Chicago and Alton Railroad Co. 86 id. 352; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co. v. Sides, 88 id. 32.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • McDowell v. Chicago Steel Works

    124 Ill. 491 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 9, 1888

    Cushman v. Hayes, 46 Ill. 145 ; Loomis v. Stave, 72 id. 623; Union Trust Co. v. Rigdon, 93 id. 458; Jones on Pledges, sec. 611; Story on Bailments, sec. 317; Milliken v. Dehon, 27 N. Y. 364 ; Robinson v. … Hurley, 11 Iowa, 410 ; Bryson v. Raynor, 25 Md. 424 ; Genet v. Howland, 45 Barb. 560 ; Murdock v. Columbus Ins. Co. 59 Miss. 152 ; Mowry v. Wood, 12 Wis. 413 .

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • The People v. Green

    368 Ill. 242 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 17, 1938

    Law, secs. 164, 372; Kibs v. People, 81 Ill. 599 .” In Brown v. … In this case, as in the Brown case, courts and juries would often differ as to what acts would amount to such wilful and wanton conduct.

    Overruled in part, on other grounds by The People v. Griffin, 36 Ill. 2d 430 (1967)Cited 83 timesPublished
  • City of Morrison v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

    257 Ill. 376 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 20, 1913

    It is contended that in the decision of the case of Village of Norris v. … The cases of Snydacker v. Village of West Hammond, 225 Ill. 154 , and Litz v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Drury v. County of McLean

    89 Ill. 2d 417 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 16, 1982

    (Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington (1911), 253 Ill. 164, 174 ; National Malleable Castings Co. v. Iroquois Steel & Iron Co. (1929), 333 Ill. 588 ; see 27 Ill. L. & Prac. … In Gray v.

    Cited 57 timesPublished
  • Christen v. County of Winnebago

    34 Ill. 2d 617 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1966

    Giebelhausen v. Daley, 407 Ill. 25, 37 ; Kremers v. City of West Chicago, 406 Ill. 546, 551 ; Hunt v. County of Cook, 398 Ill. 412 .” (People ex rel. Adamowski v. Wilson, 20 Ill.2d 568, 580 .) … (Mathews v. City of Chicago, 342 Ill. 120, 133 .)

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Palella v. Leyden Family Service & Mental Health Center

    79 Ill. 2d 493 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 28, 1980

    A legislative body, including the board of trustees of a home rule village, is without power to say how the judiciary shall construe a legislative enactment. (See People v. … Citing Meyer v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • City of East St. Louis v. Illinois Central Railroad

    238 Ill. 296 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 19, 1909

    Hull v. People, 170 Ill. 246 ; Pfeiffer v. People, 170 id. 347 . … As was said in City of Peru v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Falls v. City of Cairo

    58 Ill. 403 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 15, 1871

    In Bradford v. … The case of Bradford v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Milnor v. Willard

    34 Ill. 38 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1864

    This was the form of the agreement in Smith v. Brown, 5 Gilm. 314 , and in Kemp v. Humphreys, 13 Ill. 573 . … The cases of Steele v. Biggs, 22 Ill. 655 , and Chrisman v. Miller, 21 id. 227, were in regard to agreements in this form. We do not regard the precise phraseology in which such an agreement is expressed as important.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Ritzman v. Industrial Commission

    353 Ill. 34 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 22, 1933

    (Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co. v. Industrial Com. 329 Ill. 494 .) … (Peterson v. Industrial Com. 331 Ill. 254 ; L. M. & O. Motor Co. v. Industrial Com. supra.)

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Leary v. Pattison

    66 Ill. 203 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1872

    This exact question was passed upon by this court in Chadwick v. Parker, 44 Ill. 326 . … Brown v. Keller, 32 Ill. 151 ; Jackson v. Warner, 32 Ill. 331 . Ho material error appearing, the judgment is affirmed. Judgment affirmed.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Woodburn v. Woodburn

    115 Ill. 427 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 25, 1886

    (Brown v. Leckie, 43 Ill. 497 ; 2 Parsons on Contracts, 623.)

    Cited 6 timesPublished

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