People Ex Rel. Parker v. Board of Appeals

Mr.-Justice Jones

delivered the opinion of the court:

An appeal has been perfected from an order of the circuit court of Cook county striking and dismissing a complaint of Harrison Parker for a writ of mandamus.

The original complaint was amended and stricken. A second amended complaint was filed and the parties defendant named were the members of the board of appeals, the county clerk, the county treasurer, and the assessor of Cook county. The Tribune Company was also made a party defendant. The second amended complaint alleged that Parker is a citizen and tax-payer in said county; that the…