Burgess v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
This is a bill filed on February 11, 1890, in the Circuit Court of Cook County by the appellant, as a citizen of the State and a resident property owner and tax-payer in said county, against George B. Davis, the treasurer of said County, Henry Wulff, the county clerk of said County, and Bichard Prendergast, to enjoin Wulff as county clerk from drawing an order on the county treasury, and Davis as treasurer from countersigning and paying out of the county treasury, and Prendergast from receiving any money for salary payable to the county judge of said county. The defendants filed general…
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