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· 5/19/1972

City of Chicago v. Leakas

Citations

  • 284 N.E.2d 449
  • 6 Ill. App. 3d 20
  • 1972 Ill. App. LEXIS 2436

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  • “The provision for ‘due inquiry’ is not intended as a pro forma or useless phrase, requiring only perfunctory performance, but, on the contrary, requires an honest and well- directed effort to ascertain the whereabouts of a defendant by an inquiry as full as circumstances can permit.”
  • “The provision for ‘due inquiry’ is not intended as a pro forma or useless phrase, requiring only perfunctory performance, but, on the contrary, requires an honest and well- directed effort to ascertain the whereabouts of a defendant by an inquiry as full as circumstances can permit.”
  • “The provision for ‘due inquiry’ is not intended as a pro forma or useless phrase, requiring only perfunctory performance, but, on the contrary, requires an honest and well- directed effort to ascertain the whereabouts of a defendant by an inquiry as full as circumstances can permit.”
  • “The provision for ‘due inquiry’ is not intended as a pro forma or useless phrase, requiring only perfunctory performance, but, on the contrary, requires an honest and well- directed effort to ascertain the whereabouts of a defendant by an inquiry as full as circumstances can permit.”

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Judges: English

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