Smith v. Thompson

Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

By this appeal the complainant, Charles S. Smith, seeks to reverse a decree of the superior court of Cook county sustaining the joint general and special demurrer of the defendants, William Hale Thompson and Richard W. Wolfe,, sued individually and as trustees of the William Hale Thompson Flood Relief Fund, James W. Breen and the Water Way and Flood Control Association of the Mississippi Valley, a corporation, and dismissing the bill for want of equity.

The record discloses that on February 7, 1931, complainant filed his bill.…