Legal Opinion
Walker v. City of Springfield
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided January 15, 1880PublishedCited by 19 opinions
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District. This was an action by the City of Springfield against Edwin S. Walker, in the Sangamon circuit court, to recover a penalty for the violation of an ordinance of the city.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This record presents the single question, whether an ordinance of the city imposing a license or tax of two per cent on the premiums received, or contracted to be received, on all foreign insurance companies doing business in the city, is valid, and legally authorized. The charter is special, and contains this provision :
“ The city council shall have power, within the jurisdiction of the city, by ordinance, to license, tax and regulate merchants, commission merchants, inn keepers, bankers, money brokers, insurance brokers, and auctioneers,” etc. Also, by section 5 of the amendment to the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- People v. ThurberIllinois Supreme Court · 1852
- City of East St. Louis v. WehrungIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
- Ducat v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
- Van Inwagen v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Hughes v. City of CairoIllinois Supreme Court · 1879
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Hanover Fire Insurance v. HardingSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Harder's Fire Proof Storage & Van Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
- Wunderle v. WunderleIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
- Hartford Fire Insurance v. RaymondMichigan Supreme Court · 1888
- Hanover Fire Insurance Co. v. HardingIllinois Supreme Court · 1927
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