PEOPLE EX REL. ADAMOWSKI v. LAND CLEARANCE COM'N

No. 34607.

14 Ill.2d 74 (1958)

150 N.E.2d 792

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Benjamin S. Adamowski, Appellant, v. CHICAGO LAND CLEARANCE COMMISSION, Appellee. — (RALPH J. FINITZO et al., Intervenors, Appellants.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied June 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BENJAMIN S. ADAMOWSKI, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (L. LOUIS KARTON, and FRANCIS X. RILEY, of counsel,) for appellant; McCARTHY & LEVIN, of Chicago, (JOHN F. McCARTHY, and ESTHER R. ROTHSTEIN, of counsel,) for intervenors-appellants.

ELSA C. BECK, WILLIAM F. MORRISSEY, and WILLIAM H. DILLON, all of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE HERSHEY delivered the opinion of the court:

The State's Attorney of Cook County brought a quo warranto action in the circuit court of Cook County against the Chicago Land Clearance Commission, challenging the validity of the 1955 amendments to the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 67 1/2, par. 63 et seq.) It is charged in the complaint that the Commission acting under the authority...

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