{
  "id": 3104170,
  "name": "Matthew J. Steffens v. Samuel B. Chase et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Steffens v. Chase",
  "decision_date": "1896-11-09",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "542",
  "last_page": "543",
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      "cite": "165 Ill. 542"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill.",
    "id": 8772,
    "name": "Illinois Supreme Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "batch": "2018"
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    "parties": [
      "Matthew J. Steffens v. Samuel B. Chase et al."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam:\nThis is a bill for an injunction, wherein Mathew J. Steffens, a resident, legal voter and tax-payer of Cook county, is complainant, and Samuel B. Chase, recorder of deeds, Daniel H. Kochersperger, county treasurer, and Daniel D. Healy and others, members of the board of county commissioners of said county, are defendants. The circuit court of Cook county sustained a demurrer to the bill, and rendered a decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill for want of equity.\nThe cause involves the validity of the act of the General Assembly, approved June 13, 1895, entitled \u201cAn act concerning land titles.\u201d (Laws of 1895, p. 107). The case is governed by the decision of this court in the cause of People ex rel. v. Chase, (ante, p. 527,) in which the statute in question is held to be unconstitutional and void. For the reasons stated in the opinion filed in said quo warranto proceeding the decree rendered herein is reversed and the cause is remanded, with directions to overrule the demurrer to the bill and enter a decree in conformity with the prayer of the bill.\nD , , , ,\nBaker and Cartwright, JJ., do not concur in this opinion.\nMr. Justice Carter: I do not concur.",
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      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "S. P. Shops, and John\u2019C. Mathis, for appellant.",
      "Theodore Sheldon, (H. B. Hurd, and George W. Smith, of counsel,) for appellee Samuel B. Chase.",
      "Frank L. Shepard, (Robert S. Iles, of counsel,) for appellees the county board and the county treasurer.",
      "Allan C. Story, also for appellees."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Matthew J. Steffens v. Samuel B. Chase et al.\nFiled at Ottawa November 9, 1896\nRehearing denied March 12, 1897.\nThis case is governed by the decision in People ex rel. v. Ohase, (ante, p. 527,) in which an act entitled \u201cAn act concerning land titles,\u201d (Laws of 1895, p. 107,) is declared to be unconstitutional.\nBaker, Cartwright and Carter, JJ., dissenting.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. John. Gibbons, Judge, presiding.\nS. P. Shops, and John\u2019C. Mathis, for appellant.\nTheodore Sheldon, (H. B. Hurd, and George W. Smith, of counsel,) for appellee Samuel B. Chase.\nFrank L. Shepard, (Robert S. Iles, of counsel,) for appellees the county board and the county treasurer.\nAllan C. Story, also for appellees."
  },
  "file_name": "0542-01",
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  "last_page_order": 543
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