Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942) [PAGE 16]

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15 II. Original jurisdiction should be exercised for the reason that the facts alleged in the petition and admitted by the demurrer affect the rights, interests and franchises of the people and the performance of high official duties affecting the public at large, and also incidentally concern private rights inseparable therefrom. (a) The rights, interests and franchises of the people and the performance of high official duties affecting the public at large are directly involved, as well as private rights inseparable therefrom. People v. City of Chicago, 193 111. 507, 522. People v. Nelson, 344 111. 46. People v. Harding, 333 111. 384. People v. Palmer, 363 111. 499. People v. Lowe, 340 111. 51. People v. Russell, 294 111. 283. People V. Lueders, 287 111. 107. People v. Sullivan, 339 111. 146. People v. Fisher, 303 111. 430. People v. Williams, 255 111. 450. People V. Hoffman, 322 111. 174. Attorney General v. Blossom, 1 Wis. 283. (b) Conducting a University is of public not primarily of private concern. Young v. Regents of the State University, 83 Kan. 245, 247. Luhrs v. City of Phoenix (Ariz., 1938), 83 Pac. (2d) 285. Trustees v. Champaign County, 76 111. 181. 187.