City of Chicago Heights v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

During the month of October of 1948, three separate complaints in chancery were filed by the city of Chicago Heights, a municipal corporation, in the superior court of Cook County, against each of the named corporate defendants, seeking an accounting, and relief at law by mandamus and to recover fees and penalties under an old ordinance of the plaintiff city passed in 1919, and under which it was sought to exact five dollars for each new telegraph, telephone, electric light or street railway pole erected in any street, avenue, alley or public place of the city; and, in addition, one dollar…