Siegel v. City of Belleville

Carl Siegel, on behalf of himself and other tax-payers of the city of Belleville, filed a bill in the circuit court of St. Clair county to restrain the city, its mayor, clerk and treasurer from expending public money in the purchase of certain fire apparatus. A joint and several demurrer to the bill was overruled, the defendants elected to abide by their demurrer, and an injunction, in accordance with the prayer of the bill, was granted. The defendants prosecuted an appeal to the Appellate Court for the Fourth District, and that court reversed the decree and remanded the cause to the circuit…