Mathews v. City of Chicago

Erminnie C. Mathews, a tax-payer of the city of Chicago and county of Cook, in her own behalf and in behalf of such other tax-payers of the city, county and State as might be similarly situated and chose to join in the suits, filed three bills in the circuit-court of Cook county attacking the constitutionality of three acts passed by the Fifty-sixth General Assembly at its special session held in May and June, 1930, and praying for an injunction restraining the defendants in the respective cases from issuing and selling any bonds for the creation or maintenance of a “working cash fund” under…