SWENEY GAS & OIL COMPANY, Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.

Case summary

The claimant failed to show cause why the case should not be dismissed for want of prosecution after the Attorney General moved for dismissal pursuant to a court order. The court dismissed the claim without an award.

Claim type: Other

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Headnotes

DISMISSAL-when case will be dismissed for want of prosecution. Where,

upon motion of Attorney General to show cause why case should not be dis- Now comes Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, and

Respondent.

Opinion filed November 5, 1931.

DISMISSAL-when case will be dismissed for want of prosecution. Where, upon motion of Attorney General to show cause why case should not be dismissed for want of prosecution, cause is not shown by claimant, case will be dismissed. Per Curiam:

Now comes Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, and makes his motion for dismissal, pursuant to an order to show cause entered by this court on the 8th day of September, A. D. 1931, wherein the claimant was ordered to show cause on or before November 3rd, 1931, why this case should not be dismissed for want of prosecution.

And it appearing to the court that cause has not been shown by claimant in accordance with said order, it is hereby ordered that the claim be dismissed without an award and the case stricken from the docket.