Cook County v. City of Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed by Cook county against the City of Chicago, to obtain an injunction against the city to restrain it from cutting off the supply of water furnished by it to the Cook county hospital, situated in the city of Chicago.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John A. Jameson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed by Cook county against the City of Chicago, to obtain an injunction against the city to restrain it from cutting off the supply of water furnished by it to the Cook county hospital, situated in the city of Chicago. The Superior Court of Cook county, in which the bill was filed, sustained a demurrer thereto, and dismissed the bill. On appeal to the Appellate Court for the First District the decree…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
We do not perceive, as the hill avers, that the ordinance of September 22, 1879, does exempt the county hospital from the payment of water taxes. It does not profess to exempt any property from water rates or assessments, but merely to authorize the rebate, in the cases specified, of water rates already levied. The ordinance is not imperative that the commissioner shall remit or rebate the rates in any case, but he is only authorized and empowered to do so. It seems to us that the ordinance merely ^purports to authorize the commissioner to remit or rebate such water rates, leaving the…
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