County of Coles v. Goehring
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. H. Van Sellar, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun on December 20, 1901, in the circuit court of Coles county by the defendant in error, Goehring, suing for the use of certain banks and other persons, against the plaintiff in error, the county of Coles, on a contract, entered into between the plaintiff in error and the defendant in error on September 20, 1898, for the repair and reconstruction…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. H. Van Sellar, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun on December 20, 1901, in the circuit court of Coles county by the defendant in error, Goehring, suing for the use of certain banks and other persons, against the plaintiff in error, the county of Coles, on a contract, entered into between the plaintiff in error and the defendant in error on September 20, 1898, for the repair and reconstruction of the court house in said county. The declaration, as originally filed on December 20,1901, consisted of three counts.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The questions, presented by the record, arise out of the propositions of law as held and refused and modified by the trial court.
First—It is claimed on the part of plaintiff in error, the county of Coles, that the contract for the repair and reconstruction of the court house, as set out in the statement preceding this opinion, was void as having been executed without authority of law. The contract is claimed to be void upon the alleged ground that, when.it was made, the county of Coles had already assessed taxes to the amount of seventy-five cents per $100.00 valuation, and that, when the…
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