People ex rel. City of Chicago v. Barrett

This is an original petition for mandamus in this court against respondents, constituting the board of review of Cook county, seeking to compel the performance of certain acts on the part of the board which the petition avers the law requires it to do in the proper enforcement of section 30 of the act of 1869 relating to fire, marine and inland navigation insurance companies, (Laws of 1869, p. 209, 228,) and concerning the taxation of net receipts of such insurance companies not organized under the laws of Illinois but doing business in this State under charters and the authority of other…