Chambers v. City of Chicago

This is an appeal by Chambers (who was the petitioner in the trial court) from a decree which adjudged that a former decree recovered by him in the character of a taxpayer was void for the reason that a court of equity was without jurisdiction of the subject matter; that the separate pleas of respondents to the jurisdiction should be sustained; that a rule to show cause why respondents should not be punished for disobeying the former decree should be dismissed, and that respondents should recover their costs against the petitioner.

October 25, 1928, Chambers, as resident and taxpayer, filed…