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  • People ex rel. O'Connell v. Turner

    55 Ill. 280 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1870

    These laws provide for the “ safe keeping ” of the child; they direct his “ commitment,” and only a “ ticket of leave,” or the uncontrolled discretion of a board of guardians, will permit the imprisoned boy to breathe the … See the case of Fletcher et al. v. The People, holding that the father may be indicted and punished for inhuman treatment of his child.

    Cited 43 timesPublished
  • Village of River Forest v. Cummings

    261 Ill. 228 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 17, 1913

    The ordinance provided that the whole cost of the contemplated improvement, including the compensation for the property taken and $500 estimated by the president of the board as the cost and expenses of the proceeding, should … The law on that subject and the decisions by which it was established and sustained were stated in the case of City of Waukegan v. Burnett, 234 Ill. 460 . The rule was enforced in City of Chicago v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • People v. City of Chicago

    256 Ill. 558 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 17, 1912

    (Milne v. People, 224 Ill. 125 ; People v. McBride, 234 id. 146 .) … Dec. 95 ; State v. City of Portland, 74 Me. 268 ; 43 Am. Rep. 586 ; Commonwealth v. Bredin, 165 Pa. St. 224; State v. Barksdale, 24 Tenn. 154 ; Allen v. City of Decatur, 23 Ill. 332 ; Browning v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Rockford Insurance v. Nelson

    75 Ill. 548 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1874

    Stone v. The People, 2 Scam 326; Murphy v. The People, 37 Ill. 447 . The next point made is, that the verdict is against the preponderance of the evidence. … application for insurance was set on foot by the agent of appellants, in order to get in hand a premium for the risk, of about forty-five dollars, he, entirely reckless and disregardful whether the property insured was a hotel or boarding

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Teter v. Spooner

    279 Ill. 39 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1917

    (Carpenter v. Calvert, 83 Ill. 62 ; Michael v. Marshall, 201 id. 70 ; Compher v. Browning, 219 id. 429.) As was said by this court in Lyman v. … (Pendlay v. Eaton, 130 Ill. 69 , and cited cases; Thompson v. Owen, 174 id. 229; Baker v. Baker, 202 id. 595; Wilkinson v. Service, 249 id. 146.)

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Johnstowne Centre Partnership v. Chin

    99 Ill. 2d 284 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 1, 1983

    (Brown v. Miller (1977), 45 Ill. App. 3d 970, 972 .) … In University Club v.

    Cited 53 timesPublished
  • Neuberg v. Clute

    6 Ill. 2d 58 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 20, 1955

    (Edwards v. Brown, 308 Ill. 350 ; Mack v. McIntosh, 181 Ill. 633 .) … (Kukulski v. Bolda, 2 Ill. 2d. 11; Favata v. Mercer, 409 Ill. 271 .)

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • People v. Harris

    Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 2002

    Officer Brown also testified that on April 9, 1995, he discovered defendant on the wrong tier. … V.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Campbell v. Campbell

    138 Ill. 612 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 2, 1891

    v. … Wilbur v. Wilbur, 129 Ill. 392 ; Carpenter v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Alden Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

    293 Ill. 597 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 16, 1920

    Arthur received no wages or salary and lived with his mother, who furnished him with clothes, board and all his expenses. After Mrs. … (Rock Island Iron Works v. Industrial Com, 287 Ill. 648 .) Mrs. Mohr never received any part of her support from her son.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Coleman

    18 Ill. 297 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1857

    of territory; the company were operating their road, and the business transactions appertaining and incident to the conduct of its affairs, must, of necessity, be extensive and multifarious— incapable of execution by a board … Ryan v. Dunlap, 17 Ill. R. 40. The old doctrine that corporations can only be bound by act under their corporate seal, has been long exploded.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • People v. Lindsay

    51 Ill. 2d 399 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 30, 1972

    Klaven, as Director, compiled information about traveling art exhibits and presented such facts to the Art Center Board in connection with its selection of exhibits for display. … Halter v. Nebraska (1907), 205 U.S. 34, 45 ; Sutherland v. DeWulf (S.D.Ill. 1971), 323 F.Supp. 740, 744-745 . In this context, the words of the United States Supreme Court in Cantwell v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Jackson v. Jackson

    144 Ill. 274 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1893

    Brown and Charles Potter were appointed to make such partition, and if not subject to division, to appraise and report the same. … Shortall v. Hinckley, supra; Mettler v. Miller, 129 Ill. 640 .

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Van Dyke v. White

    2019 IL 121452 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 9, 2019

    Board of Education of the City of Chicago v. Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, 2015 IL 118043, ¶ 14. … See Securities & Exchange Comm’n v. K.W. Brown & Co., 555 F. Supp. 2d 1275, 1308 (S.D. Fla. 2007); Abrahamson v.

    Cited 45 timesPublished
  • St. Clair County v. Kathryn Phillips

    212 Ill. 2d 407 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 21, 2004

    According to defendants, the authority given to county boards in section 5 — 1121 of the County Code “directly parallels” the authority given to municipalities in section 11 — 31—1 of the Municipal Code. … Subsequently, in Village of Lake Villa v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Hasemann v. White

    177 Ill. 2d 414 · Illinois Supreme Court · Sep 25, 1997

    See Witkowski v. Brown, 576 A.2d 669, 671 (Del. Super. 1989); Oliver v. Oklahoma Property & Casualty Insurance Guaranty Ass’n, 774 S.W.2d 902 (Mo. App. 1989); Burke v. Valley Lines, Inc., 421 Pa. … See California Insurance Guarantee Ass’n v. Liemsakul, 193 Cal. App. 3d 433, 440 , 238 Cal. Rptr. 346, 349 (1987); Colorado Insurance Guaranty Ass’n v. Harris, 827 P.2d 1139, 1142 (Colo. 1992); Hetzel v.

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • Rich v. Naffziger

    255 Ill. 98 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1912

    Ely v. Brown, 183 Ill. 575 . … In Menkins v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • People v. Suppiger

    103 Ill. 434 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1882

    This is a distinct tax from that levied and assessed under section 16 of the same act, and so this court decided in Mee v. Paddock, 83 Ill. 494 . … The words, “except as provided in section 16,” contained in the former statute, and which were thought in Baird v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • People Ex Rel. Kaneland Community Unit School District No. 302 v. Howlett

    30 Ill. 2d 128 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 22, 1964

    The preamble of the bill expresses a recognition by the General Assembly that this court’s decisions in Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District, 18 Ill.2d 11 , and Molitor v. … Hertz Corp. v. Taylor, 15 Ill.2d 552 ; Pickus v. Board of Education of City of Chicago, 9 Ill.2d 599 ; Co-ordinated Transport, Inc. v. Barrett, 412 Ill. 321 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Peoria Chapter, National Electrical Contractors Ass'n v. Central Illinois Light Co.

    37 Ill. 2d 55 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 29, 1967

    The situation differs from that which was before the court in Consumers Sanitary Coffee and Butter Stores v. Commerce Commission, 348 Ill. 615 , upon which the petitioner relies. … But the commission had no power to adjudicate the contractual rights between cilco and the Department (see Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad v. Brown, 375 Ill. 438 ; Midland Trail Bus Line Co. v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished

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