PEOPLE EX REL. VILLAGE OF PARK FOREST v. CULLERTON

No. 34623.

13 Ill.2d 575 (1958)

150 N.E.2d 589

THE PEOPLE ex rel. THE VILLAGE OF PARK FOREST et al., Appellants, v. P.J. CULLERTON, Assessor of Cook County, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

WALLACE WYATT, of Chicago, for appellants.

BENJAMIN S. ADAMOWSKI, State's Attorney, of Chicago, (FRANCIS X. RILEY, and ROBERT W. SCHERMAN, of counsel,) for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE DAILY delivered the opinion of the court:

Upon the failure of administrative efforts to bring about the back-taxing of a certain building for the year 1955, appellants, who are the village of Park Forest and Bernard G. Cunningham, the latter a resident of and taxpayer of the village, filed in the superior court of Cook County a petition for writ of mandamus against the county assessor and the board of appeals, the...

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