People Ex Rel. Stubblefield v. City of West Frankfort

Mr. Presiding Justice Bardens

delivered the opinion of the court.

The relator filed his petition for mandamus in the circuit court of Franklin county on October 17, 1947, against the City of West Frankfort, Illinois, and other ifidividual officers of the city seeking to compel the defendants to institute tax foreclosure proceedings against certain described lands of said city to foreclose the lien of special assessments. The complaint set up that the special assessments were levied against the properties in pursuance to an ordinance of the city passed on December 6, 1926, and that bonds were…