Knopf v. People ex rel. City of Chicago

In each of the.se cases a petition was filed in the circuit court of Cook county against the plaintiff in error, county clerk of said county, alleging that the provision of section 49 of the act for the assessment of property, in force July 1, 1898, limiting the aggregate of all the levies certified by the municipalities of said county to said county clerk to five per centum, under which the county clerk claimed the right to act, was unconstitutional and void, and praying for a writ of mandamus to compel him to compute the rates and extend the taxes due the relators in accordance with the…