O'Kane v. Treat
Illinois Supreme Court
The inhabitants and tax payers of the city of LaSalle, defendants in error, filed their bill against O’Kane, the collector in the town of LaSalle, March 29th, 1861, alleging : That by the charter of said city, the inhabitants of said city are exempt from working and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work on any road outside the city limits.
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The inhabitants and tax payers of the city of LaSalle, defendants in error, filed their bill against O’Kane, the collector in the town of LaSalle, March 29th, 1861, alleging : That by the charter of said city, the inhabitants of said city are exempt from working and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work on any road outside the city limits. That a town meeting of the town of LaSalle, April 5th, 1859, resolved, “ That fifty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed for 1859, be appropriated towards constructing a road across the Bottom, in the town of LaSalle, from the south boundary…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This record presents the question- whether the inhabitants of the city of LaSalle are liable to the payment of a road tax imposed by the town of LaSalle under the township organization law. By the ,city charter, the inhabitants are exempted “ from working upon any road beyond the limits of the city, and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work upon the same.” This provision has prevented the town authorities, from imposing upon the inhabitants of the city, the number of days labor required by the statute to be expended on the roads of the town. When they fix the number of days labor to…
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