Drake v. Phillips
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of the county of Tazewell; the Hon. James Harriott, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for an injunction filed 26th December, 1865, by James Phillips and others, the defendants in error, to restrain the collection of a tax, imposed by the town of Delevan, for the purpose of refunding moneys which had been previously paid by individuals residing in the town, to raise volunteers for the army.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of the county of Tazewell; the Hon. James Harriott, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for an injunction filed 26th December, 1865, by James Phillips and others, the defendants in error, to restrain the collection of a tax, imposed by the town of Delevan, for the purpose of refunding moneys which had been previously paid by individuals residing in the town, to raise volunteers for the army. The injunction was ordered to issue, and on the hearing was made perpetual; the defendants to the bill, seeking to have that injunction dissolved, prosecute this writ of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It appears from this record that at a town meeting in the town of Delevan, in April, 1865, it was resolved by the citizens of the town to levy a tax of three per cent, for town purposes. It also appears that the fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars of the valuation of the property in the town was all that was required for town purposes; that the remainder of the tax so levied, was designed for the purpose of refunding moneys already paid by individuals residing in the town, to raise volunteers for the army; that the tax was levied in pursuance to the resolution, and was extended, against…
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