Fairbank v. Stratton

Plaintiffs, (Kellogg Fairbank, original plaintiff, later joined by additional plaintiff Ferre C. Watkins,) as taxpayers, seek to enjoin the purchase by the State Treasurer of a $25,000,000 revenue bond issue of the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority. They further attempt to restrain the Authority from expending funds to- reclaim submerged lands under a lease from the Chicago Park District. The defendants are William G. Stratton and Elmer G. Hoffman, as Governor and Treasurer, respectively, of the State of Illinois, and the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority and the individual…