Leach v. People ex rel. Patterson

This was an application made by the collector of taxes for Wayne county, in this State, for judgment for delinquent taxes against certain real estate of the appellant in that county. The taxes delinquent were levied to pay interest on $200,000 of bonds, purporting to be bonds issued by Wayne county in 1869, and in January, 1870,—$100,000 as a donation to, and $100,000 for the stock of, the Illinois Southeastern Railroad Company, whose railroad runs through said county.

By'an act of the General Assembly, approved February 28, 1867, entitled “An act to change the time of electing certain…