Board of Supervisors of Schuyler County v. People ex rel. Rock Island & Alton Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
These cases were, by consent, tried together, upon the same evidence. The first case is mandamus, to compel the defendant to issue and deliver to the relator, bonds of the county of Schuyler to the amount of $16,000, in payment of an alleged subscription of said county to the stock of the relator, railroad company.
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These cases were, by consent, tried together, upon the same evidence. The first case is mandamus, to compel the defendant to issue and deliver to the relator, bonds of the county of Schuyler to the amount of $16,000, in payment of an alleged subscription of said county to the stock of the relator, railroad company. The writ, alleges the charter and organization of the railroad company; an order of the board of supervisors of said county, directing an election to be held as stated in the order hereinafter set forth; that at said election, a majority of the voters voting on the question, voted…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
The same questions are involved in both these cases, and they will be considered together.
We think the title of this act sufficient to embrace the whole of the law, and that it is a compliance with the constitutional requirement. All the provisions of the act are appropriately designed to carry out the object of the corporation. If it was proper to authorize subscriptions to the stock, it was certainly proper to enable individuals or counties to subscribe and specify the terms and conditions on which they might subscribe, and the mode of making the subscription.
It is next objected that the…
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