People ex rel. Ely v. Rumsey
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application in this court for a mandamus against Julian S. Rumsey, treasurer of Cook county, to compel him. to pay the petitioners for their services as stenographic reporters in a certain suit in the courts of Cook county.
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This was an application in this court for a mandamus against Julian S. Rumsey, treasurer of Cook county, to compel him. to pay the petitioners for their services as stenographic reporters in a certain suit in the courts of Cook county. The relators had been appointed reporters by the judges of the courts of Cook county under the act of March 6, 1867, entitled “An act for the appointment of official reporters and for the preservation of evidence in certain cases in Cpok county.” The relators were appointed under this act by the judges of the superior court of Chicago, of the circuit court of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thornton
In this ease the petition for a mandamus, by consent of parties, stands in place of the alternative writ, and a demurrer has been filed.
The act by virtue of which the relators were appointed, and under which they claim compensation, is special, and has reference only to the courts of Cook county. The services were rendered by the reporters in a suit pending since the adoption of the present constitution..The inquiry is, was this act abrogated by the constitution?
On the part of the relators, it is urged that they are authorized by section six of the schedule to continue to exercise and perform…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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