McManigal v. Simon
| Decision Date | 27 September 1967 |
| Docket Number | No. 16080.,16080. |
| Citation | 382 F.2d 408 |
| Parties | Thomas A. McMANIGAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Seymour SIMON et al., Defendants-Appellees. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Seventh Circuit |
William Hettleman, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Donald J. Veverka, Asst. State's Atty., Edward J. Hladis, Chief, Civ. Div., John J. Stamos, State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for appellees.
Before SCHNACKENBERG, CASTLE and FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judges.
Thomas A. McManigal, plaintiff-appellant, prosecutes this appeal from orders of the District Court denying his motion to vacate a previous order of the court dismissing his amended complaint, and denying his subsequent motion that the District Court notify the Chief Judge of this Court to designate two other judges to serve as members of a three-judge court to hear and determine plaintiff's action.
Plaintiff's amended complaint sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants-appellees, the members of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County, Illinois, and the State's Attorney of Cook County, respectively. Jurisdiction of the District Court was predicated on 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343 and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, § 1985 and § 1988, and the amended complaint requested the convening of a three-judge court as provided under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2281 and § 2284.
From our examination of the record we conclude that the District Court lacked jurisdiction of the plaintiff's action. Accordingly, we affirm the orders appealed.
Plaintiff's amended complaint sought to have declared invalid a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Cook County authorizing the Board's president to enter into a proposed contract with the Chicago Law Institute and sought to restrain the defendants from commencing any state court action to cancel a March 11, 1958 agreement between the County and the Institute under which the law library of the Institute was to be housed in the Cook County Court House for a ten year period expiring April 4, 1968, in exchange for free access to the library by the judges of courts of record and certain designated county and city officers.
The complaint alleges, inter alia, that plaintiff is a "stockholder-member" of the Chicago Law Institute, and sues on behalf of himself and all other such members; that the Chicago Law Institute is an Illinois corporation created February 18, 1857, by a special Act of the Illinois legislature; that the corporation succeeded an earlier unincorporated not-for-profit association formed to provide for the exchange of law books between the organizers; that pursuant to contracts renewable every ten years the Institute has been furnished space in the Cook County Court House to house its law books "in return for which the Corporation's charter, Section 6, secured to all Federal and State judges of courts of record `the free access to, and the full and entire use and enjoyment of the said library and all the privileges and advantages thereof free of expense under the same rules and regulations as may be provided by the by-laws of the said Corporation for the proprietors or shareholders thereof'"; that the current contract expires April 4, 1968; that with the completion of the Civic Center, to which the Cook County courts were removed, the law library of the Institute was moved August 12, 1966, to that location contrary to the desires of some 600 of the Institutes approximate 1400 members; that prior thereto the defendant Board of Commissioners of Cook County by resolution authorized its president to execute a proposed contract with the Institute providing for the donation of the Institute's law library to the County and that the Institute and the County jointly seek state court approval of such contract; that the Institute's executive committee voted like authority to the Institute's president; that such contract was executed, state court approval sought, a final decree entered July 13, 1966, approving the contract, and an appeal therefrom taken by certain of the Institute's members; and that plaintiff and other members of the Institute have a pecuniary interest in the Institute, and thereby an interest in its assets including the unexpired agreement of March 11, 1958.
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