Greeley v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeals from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Kerry Booth, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lawrehce
In these cases, a judgment was rendered against certain lands in the town of Cicero, county of Cook, for the amount of the State, county, town and school taxes alleged to be due thereon, and also for a special assessment levied for the improvement of a highway, called Riverside Parkway. These taxes, and the special assessment, were levied by virtue of certain powers given in the act incorporating the town of Cicero, to be found in Private Laws of 1867, vol. 3, p. 385, and the first objection taken by appellants is, that the act is unconstitutional. It is claimed that the constitution of 1848,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- City of Chicago v. LarnedIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
- People ex rel. Davenport v. BrownIllinois Supreme Court · 1850
3Cited by11 opinions
- Wheelock v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- City of Chicago v. Town of CiceroIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
- Town of Cicero v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
- Wilkerson v. City of LexingtonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
- Crawford v. People ex rel. RumseyIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
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