Opinion

Krebs v. Thompson

  • 387 Ill. 471
  • 56 N.E.2d 761
Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Filed
Sep 19, 1944
Status
Published
Author
Gunn
On the bench
Smith, Gunn
Cited by
56 cases

holding the plaintiff had taxpayer standing to sue over an allegedly unconstitutional act that collected fees totaling about $100,000, an amount that exceeded the $11,000 cost of administering the act

How later courts described this case

  • holding the plaintiff had taxpayer standing to sue over an allegedly unconstitutional act that collected fees totaling about $100,000, an amount that exceeded the $11,000 cost of administering the act
  • addressing plaintiff's arguments, after noting plaintiff did not claim to be subject to challenged act or affected by its provisions, except as a taxpayer
  • challenging Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 48½

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Mr. Justice: Gunn,

specially concurring :

I concur in the result reached in this case but not in all that is said, especially in relation to the insufficiency of the definition of professional engineering.

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