Gage v. Graham

This was a suit in equity, brought by appellees, in the Superior Court of Chicago, against appellants, to enjoin the issuing of tax deeds upon certificates of sale of real estate, for taxes, by the collector of Cook county, for the amount of certain special assessments, levied by the Cook County Drainage Commissioners, a corporation created by an act of the general assembly, adopted in 1852, (Sess. laws, 240). ISTo answer having been filed, the bill was taken as confessed, and evidence heard, and the court found the facts charged in the bill to be true. The bill alleges as one of the grounds…