UNITED STATES v. ROCK ISLAND CENTENNIAL BRIDGE COM'N

Civ. A. No. P-2444.

230 F.Supp. 654 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. ROCK ISLAND CENTENNIAL BRIDGE COMMISSION and its members—Melvin McKay, Franklin Wingard, Roy A. Miller, Maurice Corken, and Morris E. Muheman, all of Rock Island, Illinois, as Commissioners of the Rock Island Centennial Bridge Commission, the City of Rock Island, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Illinois, and Rock Island Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Illinois, N. D.

May 25, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Phelps, U. S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., Jonathan Altschuler, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Reidy, Katz McAndrews, Durkee & Telleen, Rock Island, Ill., for defendants.

Charles D. Marshall, Jr., Rock Island, Ill., for City of Rock Island, Ill.


MERCER, Chief Judge.

The United States filed its complaint for an accounting and for an injunction restraining the enforcement of that part of an ordinance of the defendant, City of Rock Island, which authorizes the City to have transferred to its general corporate purpose fund any part of the revenues derived from tolls collected upon the Rock Island Centennial Bridge.1

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