Fergus v. Russel

The plaintiff in error, as a tax-payer, filed a bill in the circuit court of Sangamon county against the State Treasurer and the Auditor of Public Accounts, representing that the Forty-ninth General Assembly in 1915 passed, and the Governor approved, certain appropriation bills, designated in the bill as “private relief bills,” appropriating sums of money to private individuals. A list of the bills, seventeen in number, is set out, and it is averred that for the amounts appropriated by four of them the Auditor had issued warrants and that the Treasurer had paid them to the beneficiaries, and…