PEOPLES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

v.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• United States ex rel. Palmer v. Ragen, 159 F.2d 356 (7th Cir. 1947)
  …mum term fixed by law. The parole law * * * does not, by any of its provisions, violate any right of a citizen guaranteed by the federal or state Constitution.” This decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States without opinion in 260 U.S. 695, 43 S.Ct. 11, 67 L.Ed. 468, upon the authority of Dreyer v. Illinois, 187 U.S. 71, 23 S.Ct. 28, 47 L.Ed. 79 and Ughbanks v. Armstrong, 208 U.S. 481, 28 S.Ct. 372, 52 L.Ed. 582. In the Dreyer case the Illinois indeterminate sentence act was before th…
• Uryga v. Ragen, 181 F.2d 660 (7th Cir. 1950)
  …od time, and dismissed the suit. Under the applicable Illinois statutes, Ill.Rev.Stat.1949, c. 38, § 801 et seq., an indeterminate sentence is a certain definite sentence for the maximum term. People v. Connors, 291 Ill. 614, 126 N.E. 595, affirmed 260 U.S. 695, 43 S.Ct. 11, 67 L.Ed. 468. This was our decision, in view of the Illinois authorities, in United States ex rel. Palmer v. Ragen, 7 Cir., 159 F. 2d 356, certiorari denied 331 U.S. 823, 67 S.Ct. 1311, 91 L.Ed. 1839. This maximum term of punishment…

Authorities Cited

• Burke v. S. Pac. R.R. Co., 234 U.S. 669 (U.S. 1914)