People Ex Rel. Brenza v. Chromium Corp. of America

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook County which overruled the objections of Chromium Corporation of America to 1949 taxes levied by the city of Chicago and by the board of education of the city of Chicago.

In the case of each of the taxing bodies the objection centers about the way in which certain cash in the hands of the county collector of Cook County was treated in the taxing bodies’ 1949 appropriation ordinance or budget. When the city of Chicago adopted its annual appropriation ordinance for 1949 the county collector held $5,575,000 of cash collected from prior…