Bradley v. Gilbert

The appellant, a taxpayer of Cook County, filed his bill against the president of the board of county commissioners, the treasurer, and the appellee, sheriff of Cook County, to prevent, by injunction, the use of the county funds in paying the sheriff for the diet of prisoners in the jail. An interlocutory injunction was granted.

On demurrer by the sheriff, the court dismissed the bill as to him, and then the appellant dismissed it as to the others, and appealed. On this appeal he asks that the injunction be continued under Sec. 21, of Chap. 69, “ Injunctions.”

The right of a taxpayer to file a…