People ex rel. Pollard v. Swigert
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an original suit in this court, wherein James S. Pollard and Milton A. Goff, partners, under the firm name of Pollard & Goff, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Auditor of Public Accounts to register certain bonds. The Auditor answered the petition, and the questions involved in the case arise upon a demurrer to his answer.
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This is an original suit in this court, wherein James S. Pollard and Milton A. Goff, partners, under the firm name of Pollard & Goff, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the Auditor of Public Accounts to register certain bonds. The Auditor answered the petition, and the questions involved in the case arise upon a demurrer to his answer. The facts of the case appear in the petition and answer, and, so far as they are material to a consideration of the questions that arise in this controversy, may be briefly stated. The “Lake Fork Special Drainage District, in the counties of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The Drainage ac't approved June 27,1885, and in force July 1, 1885, is a revision and amendment of the Drainage law of 1879, in force July 1, 1879, and of several other acts therein mentioned, and its provisions govern in respect to all the matters here at issue. Laws of 1885, p. 77, etc.
Section 11 and section 30, and all the intervening sections of the act, relate to the formation, in counties under township organization, of drainage districts composed of lands that are all located in one township, or to what are called combined or township drainage districts, and to the powers and duties of…
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