Tilney v. City of Chicago

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs seek to reverse a judgment dismissing their suit. They are nonresidents of the state of Illinois and sue as members of a class, that is, patrons of the passenger transportation system of the city of Chicago, praying that the city and its executive officers account for and pay into the court for distribution to plaintiffs and others similarly situated the “traction fund” created by and emanating from the provisions of the municipal ordinances of 1907; that the city be enjoined from diverting the fund, and that the court, after ascertaining its true amount,…