Fuller v. City of Chicago

Appellant, as a tax-payer in the city of Chicago, filed his bill to restrain the city authorities from paying a large number of outstanding certificates of indebtedness issued by the mayor, comptroller, and city clerk.

The bill alleges that in the year 1875 the city was indebted beyond the constitutional and statutory limit, but borrowed money and issued these certificates notwithstanding the want of power. The following is the form of these certificates:

“ This is to certify that the city of Chicago acknowledges to one John Doe the sum of $1,000, lawful money of the United States of America,…