PEOPLE EX REL. SCOTT v. DRAVO CORP.

No. 72-92.

10 Ill. App.3d 944 (1973)

295 N.E.2d 284

THE PEOPLE ex rel. WILLIAM J. SCOTT, Attorney General, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DRAVO CORPORATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Rehearing denied April 24, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Chicago, (Warren K. Smoot, Assistant Attorney General, and Fred F. Herzog, of counsel,) for appellants.

Carey, Filter & White, of Chicago, (Edward M. White and Edmund P. Boland, of counsel), for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE JONES delivered the opinion of the court:

The question in this appeal is, literally, where is Dog Island?

Although the Illinois Constitution of 1970 is silent on the subject, article I of the Illinois Constitution of 1870 fixes the boundary line of Illinois with Kentucky along the Ohio River on its northwestern shore. When Virginia ceded to the United States the Northwest...

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