People v. Guthrie
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock County; the Hon. C. J. Scofield, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for mandamus presented by the relator, The Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Company, by its superintendent, John II. Cole, and its attorney, G. Edmunds, filed June 18, 1891, with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Hancock County, Illinois, and summons issued returnable June 25, 1891, which was duly served.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock County; the Hon. C. J. Scofield, Judge, presiding. This was a petition for mandamus presented by the relator, The Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Company, by its superintendent, John II. Cole, and its attorney, G. Edmunds, filed June 18, 1891, with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Hancock County, Illinois, and summons issued returnable June 25, 1891, which was duly served. The petition sets out that relator is a corporation, of the States of Illinois and Iowa, duly consolidated, and owns a bridge across the Mississippi river between the cities of Keokuk, Lee…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
Sec. 1 of an act to provide for the assessment of taxation of bridges, etc., approved May 1, 1872 (Starr & Curtis’ Statute, 2d Yol., page 2124) provides :
“ Such assessor shall give, in his description, the quarter section, township and range in which such bridge is located or terminated in this State, together with the metes and bounds of the ground occupied by such bridge and the approaches thereto from the end on the Illinois shore to the center of the main channel of the stream crossed by the same.”
The prayer of the appellant’s petition is that a per•emptory writ of mandamus issue…
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