O'Connor v. Leddy

Citations

• 64 Ill. 299

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law—construction of section 29 of Article 6 of the constitution of 1870. Section 29 of Article 6 of tbe constitution of 1870 provides that “ All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation; and tbe organization, jurisdiction, powers, proceedings and practice of all tbe courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated bylaw, and the force and effect of tbe process, judgments and decrees of such courts, severally, shall be uniform:” Held, that tbe object of this provision was to abrogate all special laws in relation to practice, then in force, so that all courts of the same class or grade should be governed by an uniform law; and its effect was'immediate upon the adoption of the constitution, and did not depend upon future legislation.</p>