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  • People ex rel. Kaiser v. Hamilton

    299 Ill. 389 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 22, 1921

    This same section gives the board jurisdiction to alter the boundaries of such districts fi> suit the convenience of the inhabitants. … (People v. Karr, 244 Ill. 374 .) The People are not bound to show anything.

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  • People ex rel. Mater v. Ross

    302 Ill. 328 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 22, 1922

    The road bonds are valid and subsisting obligations of the county, (Goodwine v. … Every contention of appellee with respect to the validity of the excess of twenty-one cents levied for county purposes has been fully discussed and answered in People v. Hoerr, 294 Ill. 338 , People v.

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  • The People v. Bank of Chebanse

    340 Ill. 124 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1930

    People v. McGrath, 279 Ill. 550 ; Thompson v. Board of Trustees, 30 id. 99; People v. Farmers State and Savings Bank, supra. … By section 23 of the Counties act it is declared that powers of a county are to be exercised by a county board.

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  • Nelson v. City of Rockford

    19 Ill. 2d 410 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 20, 1960

    Before this action was commenced the plaintiffs had applied to the zoning board for an amendment changing the classification to local business. … The basic considerations that have moved us to this conclusion are set forth in Sinclair Pipe Line Co. v. Village of Richton Park, ante, p. 370, and need not be repeated here.

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  • Redfern v. Redfern

    38 Ill. 509 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 15, 1865

    Vanzant v. Vanzant, 23 Ill. 540 ; Miller v. Maride, 27 ib. 405; Patterson v. Kreig, 29 ib. 518 ; Pondee v. Lindley, 31 ib. 187. … In all the cases a formal release or waiver was deemed necessary, except as held in the case of Brown v. Coon, decided at November term, 1864.

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  • Figueira v. Caldwell

    347 Ill. 199 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 17, 1931

    After the result had been proclaimed by the judges and clerks of the election in their respective precincts and canvassed by the canvassing board of the city it was declared by the canvassing board and entered of record by … In Girhard v.

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  • People Ex Rel. Miller v. Nierstheimer

    402 Ill. 599 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 24, 1949

    On March 17, 1941, the Illinois Parole Board entered an order in petitioner’s case, as follows: “Paroled. Effective when the Indiana Authorities come for him. If not taken, case to be referred back to the Board.” … The action of the Parole Board was unwarranted by the Sentence and Parole Act and the purported parole was, therefore, illegal and void at its inception. People ex rel. Milburn v. Nierstheimer, 401 Ill. 465 .

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  • Lyons v. Ryan

    201 Ill. 2d 529 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 19, 2002

    See People v. … See Briceland, 65 Ill. 2d at 501-02 ; Environmental Protection Agency v. Pollution Control Board, 69 Ill. 2d 394 (1977).

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  • Niagara Fire Insurance v. Forehand

    169 Ill. 626 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 8, 1897

    Co. v. … Jube v. Insurance Co. 48 Barb. 412 ; Haff v. Insurance Co. 4 Johns. 132 ; O’Brien v. Insurance Co. 63 N. Y. 108 ; Phillips v. Insurance Co. 14 Mo. 220 ; Bonner v. Insurance Co. 13 Wis. 677 ; Harris v.

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  • American Oil Co. v. Mahin

    49 Ill. 2d 199 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 30, 1971

    Stores (8th cir., 1943), 133 F.2d 575, 581 ; Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation v. United States (Ct. Cl., 1962), 303 F.2d 928 ; Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. Commissioner (8th cir., 1943), 133 F.2d 582 ; Dixon v. … Brown (5th cir., 1957), 245 F.2d 662, 666 ) for the proposition that an administrative agency is not irrevocably bound to a prior erroneous construction of a statute.

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  • People v. Bradley

    39 Ill. 130 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 15, 1866

    And in support of this position the' cases of McCulloch v. The State of Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316 , and Osborn v. The United States Bank, 9 Wheat. 738 , are referred to as decisive of the question. … And the court say: “ The whole opinion of the court, in the case of McCulloch v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Crerar Clinch Coal Co. v. City of Chicago

    341 Ill. 471 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 25, 1930

    These amendments were declared unconstitutional in People v. Kaul, 302 Ill. 317 , and in Rippinger v. Niederst, 317 id. 264, and it was declared that clause 82 as amended in 1911 was left in force. … (Barnard & Miller v. City of Chicago, 316 Ill. 519 ; Aberdeen-Franklin Coal Co. v. City of Chicago, 315 id. 99; Arms v. City of Chicago, 314 id. 316.)

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  • Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co.

    57 Ill. 2d 376 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 29, 1974

    Fooden v. Board of Governors (1971), 48 Ill.2d 580, 587 ; People ex rel. Sharp v. City of Chicago (1958), 13 Ill.2d 157, 161 . In Kaminski v. Missionary Sisters of Sacred Heart (1965), 62 Ill. … Fooden v. Board of Governors (1971), 48 Ill.2d 580, 587 . The summary judgment entered by the trial court in favor of the defendants was proper.

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  • Korson v. Stathopulos

    334 Ill. 193 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 20, 1929

    (Breit v. Yeaton, 101 Ill. 242 .) A court of equity will refuse to aid stale demands where a party has slept on his rights. If one calls upon a court of equity he must show reasonable diligence. … (Oehmich v. Hedstrom, 251 Ill. 481 ; Hamilton v. Hamilton, 231 id. 128; Brown v. Brown, 154 id. 35; McDonald v. Stow, 109 id. 40.)

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  • Daugherty v. State Savings, Loan & Trust Co.

    292 Ill. 147 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1920

    It may be said here, as was said in Wickes v. … (See, also, Snell v. Weldon, 239 Ill. 279 .) The burden was on the contestants to overcome the case made by proponents by a preponderance of the evidence. Wickes v. Walden, supra, and cases there cited.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • In re Jordan

    157 Ill. 2d 266 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 18, 1993

    (See, e.g., Gadda v. State Bar (1990), 50 Cal. 3d 344 , 787 P.2d 95 , 267 Cal. Rptr. 114 ; Florida Bar v. Guard (Fla. 1984), 448 So. 2d 981 ; Florida Bar v. … of Law Examiners v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Hawkins v. Albright

    70 Ill. 87 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1873

    In Boggs v. … To the same effect are, also, Moeller v. Quarrier, 14 Ill. 280 , and Brown v. Ill. Cen. Mut. Ins. Co. 42 id. 369 .

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  • People Ex Rel. Birkett v. City of Chicago

    184 Ill. 2d 521 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 17, 1998

    People v. Sanders, 99 Ill. 2d 262, 270 (1983); see also Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board v. … See, e.g., Bobkoski v. Board of Education of Cary Consolidated School District 26, 141 F.R.D. 88, 91 (N.D. Ill. 1992); see also Hamilton v. Verdow, 287 Md. 544 , 553 n.3, 414 A.2d 914 , 920 n.3, citing E.

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  • Decker v. Decker

    121 Ill. 341 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1887

    —Here the bequest was of the testator’s residuary estate, “to be equally divided between the Board of Foreign and the Board of Home Missions.” … contributions for home and foreign missions to the Presbyterian boards, and had contributed nothing to the mission boards of other denominations; and it was held, that this evidence, in connection with other bequests in

    Cited 57 timesPublished
  • Rippinger v. Niederst

    317 Ill. 264 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 24, 1925

    (Smith’s Stat. chap. 131, sec. 1, clause 3; Arnold & Murdock Co. v. Industrial Board, 277 Ill. 295 .) … In support of this contention he cites Cook County v. Healy, 222 Ill. 310 , and People v. Fisher, 274 id. 116. In Cook County v.

    Cited 17 timesPublished

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