City of Chicago v. County of Cook

The question involved in this case is the constitutionality of section 57 of “An act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago,” as subsequently amended. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 37, par. 417.) That part of the section challenged provides that the fees of the clerk and the bailiff of the municipal court in certain criminal and quasi-criminal cases and proceedings, when not collected from the defendants upon their conviction, .or when the defendants are acquitted or discharged, and which remain unpaid at the end of each year, shall be paid out of the county treasury.

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