Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 282

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Page 41 - ... to the widow of the person so killed, his lineal heirs or adopted children, or to any other person or persons who were, before such loss of life, dependent for support on the person or persons so killed, for a like recovery of damages for the injuries sustained .by.
Page 253 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 133 - ... in any block in which twothirds of the buildings on both sides of the street are used exclusively for residence purposes...
Page 88 - For all other corporate purposes, all municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes; but such taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing...
Page 83 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this Act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages in respect thereof...
Page 487 - ... in the course of his employment or incident to it. * * * "An injury occurs in the course of the employment, within the meaning of the workmen's compensation act, when it occurs within the period of the employment at a place where the employee may reasonably be and while he is reasonably fulfilling the duties of his employment or is engaged in doing something incidental to it.
Page 511 - A court will not hold an ordinance void as unreasonable where there is room for a fair difference of opinion on the question, even though the correctness of the legislative judgment may be doubtful and the court may regard the ordinance as not the best which might be adopted for the purpose.
Page 65 - Traub are what is known in law as accomplices, and that, while it is a rule of law that a person accused of crime may be convicted upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice still a jury should always act upon such testimony with great care and caution, and subject it to careful examination, in the light of all other evidence in the case; and the jury ought not to convict upon such testimony alone, unless, after a careful examination of such testimony, they are satisfied beyond a reasonable...
Page 187 - An Act to create Sanitary Districts and to remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889.
Page 94 - No. 13, which told the jury that the right of self-defense does not imply the right of attack...

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