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In re Clyde Wilson Summers
323 U.S. 705·Supreme Court of the United States·1944
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Opinion
No. 205.
In re Clyde Wilson Summers.
December 11, 1944.
Mr. Julien Cornell for petitioner. Messrs. George F. Barrett, Attorney General of Illinois, and William C. Wines, Assistant Attorney General, for the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois, respondents.
[MAJORITY]
The return to the rule to show cause is received and ordered filed. The petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois is granted and the writ is ordered to issue.