Legal Opinion
State Treasurer v. Wright
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 15, 1862PublishedCited by 2 opinions
This case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court. (The General Assembly, at its session in 1863, has changed the law, in regard to the collection of taxes, authorizing them to be paid in the currency issued by authority of Congress.)
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
This case comes before us from the Sangamon Circuit Court, on the following agreed statement of facts, namely:
“ It is agreed by and between William Butler, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, and Presco Wright, Treasurer and Collector of Sangamon county, that the said Presco Wright, as treasurer and collector of Sangamon county, had collected and had in his hands due to'the State of Illinois on the sixth day of May, 1862, the sum of one thousand dollars, collected by him of taxes assessed, laid and collected by him in the year 1862, due to the State of Illinois for all the various items of…
2Cited by2 opinions
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