ISENSTEIN v. ROSEWELL

No. 60600.

106 Ill.2d 301 (1985)

478 N.E.2d 330

MELVIN ISENSTEIN et al., Appellees, v. EDWARD J. ROSEWELL, County Treasurer, Appellant. — ADA BOLEY et al., Appellees, v. THOMAS C. HYNES, County Assessor, et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied May 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Jane Clark Casey and Henry A. Hauser, Deputy State's Attorneys, and David S. Martin and Mark R. Davis, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellants.

William J. Harte, Ltd., Kevin M. Forde, Ltd., and Ash, Anos, Freedman & Logan, of Chicago (William J. Harte, Kevin M. Forde, Richard J. Prendergast, Katrina Veerhusen, and Lawrence M. Freedman, of counsel), for appellees Melvin Isenstein et al.

Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd., of Chicago (Gerard E. Dempsey and Bruce A. Zolna, of counsel), for appellees Ada Boley et al.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs in these cases (hereinafter referred to as Isenstein and Boley) filed class action suits in the circuit court of Cook County challenging the authority of defendants Thomas C. Hynes, county assessor, and Edward J. Rosewell, county treasurer and ex-officio county collector, to assess and collect rollback taxes on farmland for tax years 1977 and thereafter. Plaintiffs sought...

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