People Ex Rel. Schreiner v. Courtney

This is a taxpayer’s suit brought by the People of the . State of Illinois ex rel. Edith M. Schreiner and Elizabeth S. Tighe against the State’s Attorney and assistant State’s Attorney of Cook county, the owner and purchaser of certain property, and the president and board of county commissioners of Cook county, and former owners in the chain of title, to recover for the People the difference between the amount realized in cash from a tax foreclosure sale, and the total amount of the tax delinquency, with interest.

The jurisdiction of this court is questioned by appellees. The case is somewhat…