City of Chicago v. Fidelity Savings Bank

This was assumpsit for money had and received, brought by the Fidelity Savings Bank against the City of Chicago in the County Court of Cook county, to recover back money paid by the bank, alleged to have been received by the city upon an illegal assessment for the taxes of 1876.

The evidence tended to show that the personal property of the bank was assessed by the town assessor, prior to the fourth Monday in June, at $1,500; that this valuation was not changed by the town board, but that the county board, at a meeting held September 8, 1876, increased the assessment from $1,500 to $25,000. The…