PETERS v. SOUTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY HOSP.

No. 42185.

44 Ill.2d 22 (1969)

253 N.E.2d 375

DONALD PETERS et al., Appellants, v. SOUTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL et al., Appellees. — DONALD PETERS et al., Appellants, v. NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HOSPITAL et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed November 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LESTER ASHER, BENJAMIN J. JACOBSON, JOSEPH E. GUBBINS and JOHN J. McNICHOLS, all of Chicago, (ASHER, GREENFIELD, GUBBINS AND SEGALL, of counsel,) for appellants.

ROBERT W. MacDONALD and WILLIAM B. HANLEY, both of Chicago, (MacDONALD & HANLEY and ELMER C. ABRAHAMSON, of counsel,) for appellees.

HUGH J. McCARTHY, of Chicago, (McCARTHY, GREGORIO, MURPHY & FOLEY, of counsel,) for Illinois State Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, amicus curiae.

STUART BERNSTEIN and ARTHUR J. KOWITT, both of Chicago, (MAYER, FRIEDLICH, SPIESS, TIERNEY, BROWN & PLATT, of counsel,) for Chicago Hospital Council and The Illinois Hospital Association, amicus curiae.


Appellate Court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

PER CURIAM:

The question presented by these two cases consolidated for review is whether the public policy of this State prohibits employees of a hospital from striking and members of a hospital labor union from peacefully picketing a hospital.

On February 26, 1968, the circuit court of Cook County entered an order the effect of which permits Hospital Employees...

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