PAULUS v. SMITH

Gen. No. 50,008.

70 Ill. App.2d 97 (1966)

217 N.E.2d 527

Van J. Paulus, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sidney D. Smith, Acting Commissioner of Buildings of the City of Chicago, William P. Hogan, Chief Electrical Inspector of the Bureau of Electrical Inspection of the City of Chicago, Edward J. Boyle, Assistant Chief Electrical Inspector of the City of Chicago, City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, Rite-Lite Neon Sign Co., an Illinois Corporation, and George Aloisio, Defendants, Sidney D. Smith, William P. Hogan, Edward J. Boyle and City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, Certain Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

April 25, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond F. Simon, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago (Sydney R. Drebin, Richard J. Elrod and Marsile J. Hughes, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), for appellants.

Raymond I. Suekoff, of Chicago (Stuart C. Katz, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendants, City of Chicago and its employees, appeal from a permanent injunction which restrains defendants from (1) revoking a sign permit issued to plaintiff, and (2) from interfering with or preventing plaintiff from proceeding with the completion of the sign erected under the permit. The trial court found the suit to be "an appropriate case for the application of the doctrine of equitable estoppel."<...

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