O'BRIEN v. Wheelock
Supreme Court of the United States
certiorari to the united states circuit court of appeals foe THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This case is brought here by certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to review a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, 78 Fed. Rep. 673, affirmed by the Court of Appeals, 95 Fed.
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certiorari to the united states circuit court of appeals foe THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This case is brought here by certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to review a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, 78 Fed. Rep. 673, affirmed by the Court of Appeals, 95 Fed. Rep. 883. The bill relates to certain proceedings under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, approved April 24, 1871, entitled “ An act to provide for the construction and protection of drains, ditches, levees and other works.” The opinion…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justioe Fuller
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Circuit Court held in substance, among other things, that the decretal order of that court on the bill first filed adjudging the amounts reported by the master to be due the several com. plainants and giving them liberty to file a supplemental bill against the owners of the lands benefited to compel them to contribute to the payments of the amounts thus reported, was not an adjudication which precluded the land owners from deny ing their liability; that as it was thirteen years after the act was declared to be unconstitutional and…
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