· 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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