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AMERICAN NAT'L BANK & TRUST CO. v. KUSPER

Nos. 49266-67 cons.

69 Ill.2d 374 (1977)

372 N.E.2d 66

AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF CHICAGO et al., Appellants, v. STANLEY T. KUSPER, County Clerk, et al., Appellees, R.B. ROBINSON, Appellant, v. STANLEY T. KUSPER, County Clerk, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 26, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Concannon, Dillon, Snook & Morton, of Chicago (William R. Dillon and John B. Dillon, of counsel) and O'Keefe, Ashenden & Lyons (Thomas G. Lyons, of counsel), for appellants.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Paul P. Beibel, Jr., Deputy State's Attorney, and Lawrence Halperin, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for appellees.

Sidley & Austin, of Chicago (William H. Avery and J. Robert Barr, of counsel), for amicus curiae League of Women Voters of Illinois.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield (Imelda R. Terrazino, of Chicago, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Pope & Driemeyer, of Belleville (Joseph R. Lowery, of counsel), for amicus curiae Southern Illinois Corporate Fiduciaries Association.

Judgments affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs in these consolidated causes filed class actions in the circuit court of Cook County seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that Public Act 78-1250 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 120, par. 500.21b) is a valid legislative enactment exempting from personal property taxation for 1975 and subsequent years all personal property held by a trustee for the exclusive...

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