People ex rel. Wilson v. Salomon

This is an application by J ohn M. Wilson and others, styling themselves South Park Commissioners, for a peremptory mandamus against Edward S. Salomon, the clerk of the county court of Cook county, to compel him, as such clerk, to receive and file in his office, forthwith, a certain estimate transmitted to him by the petitioners, of the amount of money that they allege will be required to be raised by taxation the next succeeding year, for the improvement, maintenance and government of the South Park; and to compel him to proceed to levy or assess the amount certified in such estimate, upon…