(DOWNLOAD) "Flynn v. Kucharski" by Supreme Court of Illinois # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Flynn v. Kucharski
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 27, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The Appellate Court, First District, affirmed a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County which awarded William J. Harte and Kevin M. Forde, attorneys for the plaintiffs, $750,000 (Flynn v. Kucharski (1973), 16 Ill. App.3d 624), and we allowed the petition for leave to appeal filed by Bernard J. Korzen, Treasurer and ex-officio County Collector of Cook County. The attorneys had represented the plaintiffs in a class action, brought on behalf of the taxpayers of the city of Chicago, challenging the constitutionality of the method of tax collection in effect in Cook County. The plaintiff taxpayers were required to pay their taxes to the county collector, whereas taxpayers living in that part of Cook County lying outside the city of Chicago had the option of paying their taxes to the county collector or to the township collector of the township in which their property was located. The basic dispute was thus described: