People Ex Rel. Arnd v. Heckard

On January 5, 1929, the circuit court of Cook county awarded a writ of mandamus petitioned for by the relator, Frederick Arnd, a resident and tax-payer of Cook county, against the defendants, directing them to deposit with the county clerk of Cook county certain records of births, stillbirths and deaths in the time and manner specified in the judgment rendered. On appeal the judgment of the circuit court was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District, and the case comes here for review by writ of certiorari.

By his petition relator alleged that on May 4, 1928, he made written…