Lippincott v. Town of Pana
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court of the Third District; the Hon. Chauncey L. Higbee, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Oliver L. Davis and Horn Lyman Lacey, Justices. This was a bill by the town of Pana and others, tax-payers, against Charles E. Lippincott, State Auditor, the State Treasurer, county clerk and collector of Pana, in the circuit court of Christian county.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court of the Third District; the Hon. Chauncey L. Higbee, presiding Justice, and the Hon. Oliver L. Davis and Horn Lyman Lacey, Justices. This was a bill by the town of Pana and others, tax-payers, against Charles E. Lippincott, State Auditor, the State Treasurer, county clerk and collector of Pana, in the circuit court of Christian county. Its object was to enjoin the assessment and collection of any tax to pay the interest on bonds issued by the town of Pana to the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern Railroad Company, with a prayer that the bonds might be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The Pana, Springfield and Northwestern Railroad Company was incorporated February 16, 1865. Priv. Laws 1865, vol. 2, p. 192. The charter of said corporation was amended April 15, 1869. Priv. Laws 1869, vol. 3, p. 330.'
The substance of the original act and amendment thereto, as regards the matter of subscriptions to the capital stock of said company by townships, was to the effect that any town in any county which had adopted township organization might subscribe to its capital stock, in any sum not exceeding $50,000, if authorized by a vote of the people, but that no such vote should be taken…
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