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ILLINOIS ex rel. MUSSO, MADISON COUNTY TREASURER v. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD CO. et al., 1966 — 384 U.S. 213 · caselaw · US
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ILLINOIS ex rel. MUSSO, MADISON COUNTY TREASURER v. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD CO. et al.
384 U.S. 213·Supreme Court of the United States·1966
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ILLINOIS ex rel. MUSSO, MADISON COUNTY TREASURER v. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD CO. et al.
No. 1046.
Decided May 16, 1966.
Burton C. Bernard for appellant.
Hugh J. Dobbs, John F. Schlafly, Louis F. Gillespie, Gordon Burroughs, Eldon Martin, Jordan Jay Hillman and Robert L. Broderick for appellees.
Briefs of amici curiae, in support of appellant, were filed by Simon L. Friedman and William M. G'iffin for the Illinois Association of School Boards et al., and by William M. Giffin for Sangamon County, Illinois.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
The motion of the Illinois Association of School Boards et al., for leave to file a brief, as amici curiae, is granted.
The motion of Sangamon County, Illinois, for leave to file a brief, as amicus curiae, is granted.
The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is. denied.