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· 1/20/1961

Whitley v. Frazier

Citations

  • 171 N.E.2d 644
  • 21 Ill. 2d 292
  • 1961 Ill. LEXIS 299

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, in an equitable estoppel action against a municipality, before discovery, plaintiffs will not have access to information about the municipality’s “bureaucratic hierarchy”
  • the right to contest an election is statutory, and the statute must be strictly followed
  • “Where a petition is [defective] and the 30-day period expires before motion is made to amend, there is no longer jurisdiction to cure the defect.”

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Judges: Klingbiel

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