People ex rel. Adamowski v. Metropolitan Sanitary District

Separate suits were filed in the circuit court of Cook County, one an information by the State’s Attorney in the nature of quo warranto and the other by the two individual plaintiffs as taxpayers. The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago and the trustees thereof were the defendants in both cases. The validity of amendatory legislation passed in 1955 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1955, chap. 42, pars. 329a to 3291) was attacked on identical constitutional grounds in both cases, and they were consolidated below. This appeal is from a final judgment and decree dismissing the consolidated cause,…