Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. City of Chicago

This was a'proceeding in chancery instituted by the appellant herein to reach, by a creditor’s bill, certain funds in the hands of the 'city of Chicago due to Michael J. Joice, and apply them to the satisfaction of a judgment appellant had recovered against him; the judgment being for labor and material (certain water pipe) furnished Joice, and used by him under a-contract he had entered into with the city.

A general demurrer to the amended bill ivas interposed by the co-defendants, the city of Chicago, its comptroller and its treasurer, and was sustained and the bill dismissed, the bill…