PEOPLE EX REL. COSTELLO v. LERNER

No. 76-80.

368 N.E.2d 976 (1977)

53 Ill. App.3d 245

11 Ill.Dec. 368

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois ex rel. Dan E. COSTELLO, Treasurer and Ex-Officio Collector of Taxes of St. Clair County, Illinois, Applicant-Appellant, v. Joseph H. LERNER, A. M. Investment Company, Phillip G. Weiss, A. E. & Jeanith Miller, Edna Bostwick, Curtis L. Smith, Belleville National Savings Bank, Trustee under Walter Kohl Trust, A. G. Schmidt Farm Equipment, Bauer Bros. Supply Co., Inc., Citizens Savings & Loan Association, Bauer Bros. Construction Co., Inc., Objectors, Appellees. Joseph H. LERNER, A. M. Investment Corporation, A. E. & Jeanith Miller, Edna Bostwick, Phillip G. Weiss, Curtis L. Smith, Belleville National Savings Bank, Trustee under Walter Kohl Trust, A. G. Schmidt Farm Equipment, Bauer Bros. Supply Co., Inc., Citizens Savings and Loan Association and Bauer Bros. Construction Co., Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE of Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, John J. Driscoll, Chairman, St. Clair County Board of Review, Robert H. Rice, State's Attorney and Barney Metz, Chief Clerk, St. Clair County Board of Assessors, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Rice, State's Atty., St. Clair County, Belleville, for applicant-appellant; Howard Clotfelter, Asst. State's Atty., O'Fallon, of counsel.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of Ill., Chicago, for defendants-appellants; Imelda R. Terrazino, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, of counsel.

W. E. Ackermann, Belleville, for plaintiffs-appellees, Lerner, A. M. Investment Corp., Weiss, Miller, Bostwick, and Schifferdecker.

Jennings, Tedesco & Flynn, Robert L. Jennings and Patrick M. Flynn, Belleville, for plaintiffs-appellees, Curtis L. Smith, Belleville National Savings Bank, Trustee etc., A. G. Schmidt Farm Equipment, Bauer Bros. Association and Bauer Bros. Construction Co., Inc.


EBERSPACHER, Justice.

This case arises from the action of the Board of Assessors of St. Clair County which in 1972 reassessed certain properties. The taxpayers administratively sought relief from the assessments before the Board of Review where they were not fully successful, and from there they perfected appeals to the State Property Tax Appeal Board. This Board affirmed the determinations of the Board of Review and the taxpayers then instituted proceedings for administrative...

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