People ex rel. County of Kane v. Crawford

Upon allowance of a motion filed pursuant to our Rule 381 (43 Ill.2d R. 381), petitioners have filed a “Petition for Original Writ of Mandamus and for Determination of Legal Issue Directly Involving Revenue.”

Petitioners allege that petitioner County of Kane is a body politic of the State of Illinois and petitioner James Fitzgerald is its duly elected, qualified and acting county collector; Northern Illinois Gas Company, an Illinois corporation, hereafter called Northern Illinois, has maintained its principal office, by its own designation, for more than 17 years, in the city of Aurora, in…