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· 11/18/1959

People Ex Rel. Dickey v. Southern Railway Co.

Citations

  • 162 N.E.2d 417
  • 17 Ill. 2d 550
  • 1959 Ill. LEXIS 380

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • for an act to repeal an earlier one by implication, there must be “such total and manifest repugnance that the two cannot stand together”
  • for an act to repeal an earlier one by implication, there must be “such total and manifest repugnance that the two cannot stand together”
  • “if the two enactments are capable of being construed so that both may stand, it is the duty of this court to so construe them”
  • “[f]or a later enactment to operate as a repeal by implication of an earlier one there must be such total and manifest repugnance that the two cannot stand together”

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Judges: W.C. Pearce

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