Tribune Co. v. Thompson

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county finding the appellants, William Hale Thompson, George F. Harding, and other defendants, guilty of conspiracy and holding them jointly and severally liable to pay to the city of Chicago the total sum of $2,245,604.52, principal and interest, and pay the costs of suit.

An original bill of complaint in chancery in this cause was filed June 24, 1921, by the Tribune Company, a corporation, as a tax-payer of the city of Chicago, against William Hale Thompson, George F. Harding, Ernest H. Lyons, Edward C. Waller, Jr., Arthur S.…