People Ex Rel. Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Village of Glencoe

The Chicago Title and Trust Company, as trustee, ap* pellee, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the superior court of Cook county, to compel the village of Glencoe to pay the sum of $7165.11, balance claimed to be due on a condemnation judgment of $8910, entered in a special assessment proceeding. The superior court issued the writ, holding section 32 of the Local Improvement act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 24, par. 731) made the village liable to pay such judgment whether the assessment levied in the proceedings be paid or not, and ordered the appellants to pay such judgment. It…