Melin v. Community Consolidated School District No. 76

Decided April 14, 1924. Orrin N. Carter wrote the opinion for the court.

312 Ill. 376 · Cited 54 times

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• City of Sullivan v. Tichenor · 179 Ill. 97
• Rose v. Village of Elizabethtown · 275 Ill. 167
• People ex rel. Beardsley v. City of Rock Island · 215 Ill. 488
• Russell v. City of Lincoln · 200 Ill. 511
• City of El Paso v. Hoagland · 224 Ill. 263
• People ex rel. Biddison v. Board of Education of Paris Union School District · 255 Ill. 568
• Boseley v. Park District · 275 Ill. 92

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