Robinson v. McKenney
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edgar EldredgE, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for injunction, filed in the circuit court of LaSalle county by appellee, a tax-payer of the township of Dimmiclc, in said county, to restrain appellant, as county clerk, from extending upon the tax collector’s books of said township certain taxes for the repair of roads.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edgar EldredgE, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for injunction, filed in the circuit court of LaSalle county by appellee, a tax-payer of the township of Dimmiclc, in said county, to restrain appellant, as county clerk, from extending upon the tax collector’s books of said township certain taxes for the repair of roads. Appellant filed a general demurrer, and upon the bill being amended filed a demurrer to the amended bill, which was overruled and a decree entered restraining the extension of the taxes in question. From this decree the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The trial court, over the objection of appellant, permitted appellee to amend his bill by adding thereto allegations to the effect that LaSalle county is, and has been for years, under township organization, and that Dimmick township is, and has been for years, operating under the “cash system” in providing for maintaining its roads and bridges, and that section 119 of chapter 121 of the Revised Statutes is not in force in said township. Appellant insists that the court erred in allowing this amendment, claiming that no reasonable excuse was offered for not inserting the facts in the original…
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