Hunsaker v. Wright
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill filed in the Alexander Circuit Court, by the defendants in error, at the June term thereof, 1860, for an injunction to stay the plaintiffs in error from proceeding to collect the county taxes assessed by the County Court, upon property within the limits of the city of Cairo. The bill alleges that complainants were owners of Cairo property in 1859. That by act of 1857, of the legislature, the city was incorporated.
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This was a bill filed in the Alexander Circuit Court, by the defendants in error, at the June term thereof, 1860, for an injunction to stay the plaintiffs in error from proceeding to collect the county taxes assessed by the County Court, upon property within the limits of the city of Cairo. The bill alleges that complainants were owners of Cairo property in 1859. That by act of 1857, of the legislature, the city was incorporated. That in 1859 the legislature passed an act providing for the extension of the limits of Cairo. That said act further provides that real and personal property within…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a bill exhibited, to enjoin the collection of the county tax levied on the real and personal property within the corporate limits of the city of Cairo. A demurrer was filed, but was overruled by the court, and the injunction made perpetual. And the cause is brought to this court to reverse that decree. '
The bill alleges, that by the charter of the city, it is provided, that its inhabitants shall be exempt from performing labor on the roads beyond the city limits, or taxes to procure labor for such purpose, and the property within the city should be exempt from taxes levied for county…
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