DU BOIS v. GIBBONS

No. 33052.

2 Ill.2d 392 (1954)

118 N.E.2d 295

REGINALD DU BOIS, Appellant, v. REDMOND P. GIBBONS, Appellee. — C. ARTHUR CARLSON, Appellee, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 17, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN J. MORTIMER, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago, (CHARLES F. RATHBUN, HARRY D. LAVERY, and JOHN A. COOK, of counsel,) for appellants.

JOHN P. COGHLAN, JOHN E. TOOMEY, JOHN J. MORAN, and WILLIAM M. GIBBONS, all of Chicago, for appellees.

BEN W. HEINEMAN, ALBERT E. JENNER, JR., HAROLD A. SMITH, HENRY F. TENNEY, and AUSTIN L. WYMAN, all of Chicago, amici curiae.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE FULTON delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal from a judgment and a decree entered in the superior court of Cook County in separate actions begun in that court but consolidated by order of the trial court at the time of the entry of final judgment and decree in each case. Both actions involve the activities of the emergency committee on crime of the city council of

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