People Ex Rel. Madison Chemical Corp. v. Gurrie

This is an appeal from the final order of the Circuit Court dismissing the plaintiff’s petition to recover costs and damages against defendant after plaintiff had been awarded a writ of mandamus.

Madison Chemical Corporation filed a petition for a writ of mandamus on April 23, 1963, to compel defendant, the acting Township School Treasurer for Lyons Township, in Cook County, to pay the plaintiff the sum of $3,737.77 “as authorized by the Board of Education of School District 109, Cook County, Illinois, for material purchased and used, together with interest payable from the date of…