Beverly v. Sabin
Illinois Supreme Court
Sabin, Clawson, and Stott, of Barrington, Cook county, and Goss and Stephens, of Cuba, Lake county, on the 2nd February, 1858, filed their bill in chancery, in the Cook Circuit Court, setting forth that for two years last past and upwards, they had been “ residents and tax-payers ” in the school district known as “ part school district No. one, in township 42, and part school district No. one, in township 48 N., R.'9 E., in Cook and Lake counties; said district being…
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Sabin, Clawson, and Stott, of Barrington, Cook county, and Goss and Stephens, of Cuba, Lake county, on the 2nd February, 1858, filed their bill in chancery, in the Cook Circuit Court, setting forth that for two years last past and upwards, they had been “ residents and tax-payers ” in the school district known as “ part school district No. one, in township 42, and part school district No. one, in township 48 N., R.'9 E., in Cook and Lake counties; said district being composed of lands lying in two townships, viz.: in Barrington, Cook county, and Cuba, Lake county. “ And that the two townships…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
We cannot hold ourselves responsible for the consistency of all the laws which we are called upon to construe. Nor can we undertake that they shall accomplish their ends in the most direct, economical or convenient mode which could be devised. We must take them as we find them, and interpret them by the long established and well known rules of construction, although we may suppose that the legislature did not precisely appreciate the .result to which their language irresistibly leads.
Previous to the revision of the school law of the last session, no material difficulty in a case like the one…
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