PEOPLE EX REL. ADAMOWSKI v. METROPOLITAN SANITARY DIST.

No. 34459.

11 Ill.2d 476 (1957)

143 N.E.2d 550

THE PEOPLE ex rel. Benjamin S. Adamowski et al., Appellants, v. THE METROPOLITAN SANITARY DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 17, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BENJAMIN S. ADAMOWSKI, State's Attorney, and RICHARD R. YOUNG, both of Chicago, (ELROY C. SANDQUIST, JR., and L. LOUIS KARTON, of counsel,) for appellants.

RUSSELL W. ROOT, LAWRENCE J. FENLON, WERNER W. SCHROEDER, and JAMES E. HASTINGS, all of Chicago, for appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE HOUSE delivered the opinion of the court:

Separate suits were filed in the circuit court of Cook County, one an information by the State's Attorney in the nature of quo warranto and the other by the two individual plaintiffs as taxpayers. The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago and the trustees thereof were the defendants in both cases. The validity of amendatory legislation passed in 1955 (Ill. Rev. Stat...

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