Porter v. Loehr

J. W. Porter, in behalf of himself and such other taxpayers of the city of Chicago as might join with him, filed a bill of complaint in the superior court of Cook county to restrain the members and officers of the Retirement Board of the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of the city of Chicago from paying pensions to former policemen in excess of the amounts allowed them by the laws in force at the times of their respective retirements, on the ground that certain acts passed by the Fifty-fifth General Assembly purporting to authorize such increases were unconstitutional and void. The…