Hanover Fire Insurance Co. v. Harding

Appellant, the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, a corporation of New York, filed its bill in the superior court of Cook county against Patrick J. Carr, county treasurer and ex-officio tax collector of Cook county, for an injunction to restrain the collection of certain taxes levied against it under and by virtue of section 30 of an act of March 11, 1869, entitled “An act to incorporate and to govern fire, marine and inland navigation insurance companies doing business in the State of Illinois.” The prayer óf the bill was in the alternative. It prayed (1) that the collection of the whole amount…