Mail v. Maxwell
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the ■ County Court of Crawford county; the Hon. Franklin Robb, Judge, presiding. On January 8, 1876, bonds, purporting to he the bonds of the town of Honey Creek, in Crawford county, Illinois, were issued to the Paris and Danville Railroad Company, to the amount of $15,000, payable, on their face, at a future day, with interest from October 11, 1875, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, payable annually on January 1 of each year, with interest coupons attached.
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Appeal from the ■ County Court of Crawford county; the Hon. Franklin Robb, Judge, presiding. On January 8, 1876, bonds, purporting to he the bonds of the town of Honey Creek, in Crawford county, Illinois, were issued to the Paris and Danville Railroad Company, to the amount of $15,000, payable, on their face, at a future day, with interest from October 11, 1875, at the rate of ten per cent per annum, payable annually on January 1 of each year, with interest coupons attached. These bonds were duly registered in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts. At the March term, 1881, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
The bondholders were not parties to the proceedings in the circuit court of Crawford county, and of course are not concluded by that decree. The tax-payers and the county collector, hovrever, were parties, and as between them that decree is conclusive that the bonds are void, and that no tax to pay interest thereon can be lawfully collected from these taxpayers. There aré no other parties before the county court in the case at bar, and it was not error in the county court to hold, that as between the complainants in that chancery suit in the circuit court and the defendant in that suit, that…
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