Barnett v. County of Cook

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Coolc county which'dismissed a resident taxpayer’s petition for an injunction. The petition asked that certain county officials be restrained from entering into a contract and expending public funds to cause a notice to be published in proceedings to confirm 1940 tax levies. The notice referred to is required to. be published in the proceedings provided by Senate Bill No. 7 of the Sixty-first General Assembly. Laws of 1939, p. 848; Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 120, pars, 812-822.

We held a similar 1937 act unconstitutional in Griffin v.…