Town of Virden v. Needles
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county;, the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. Bill in equity was filed by the town of Virden, in Macoupin county, George Tuttle, William H. Burch, Peter Mayer, John J. Wilkins, John J. Cox and Guy M. Chedister, voters and tax-payers of said town, against the Auditor of Public Accounts and Treasurer of the State of Illinois, the county clerk and county treasurer of Macoupin county, the town collector of the town of Virden, the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county;, the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. Bill in equity was filed by the town of Virden, in Macoupin county, George Tuttle, William H. Burch, Peter Mayer, John J. Wilkins, John J. Cox and Guy M. Chedister, voters and tax-payers of said town, against the Auditor of Public Accounts and Treasurer of the State of Illinois, the county clerk and county treasurer of Macoupin county, the town collector of the town of Virden, the Jacksonville, Northwestern and Southeastern Railway Co., and the unknown holders of the bonds and coupons of the town of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfibld
The questions presented by the assignment of errors do not affect the decree enjoining the collection of the tax and the payment of the taxes collected on account of the bonds and annexed coupons issued to the Jacksonville, Northwestern and Southeastern Railway Co., and our remarks will be limited, strictly, to the errors assigned.
First.—The bondholders were not personally before the court, and no personal decree could, therefore, be rendered against them. The notice by publication only enabled the court to give effect to the proceeding so far as it was one in rem. Harris et al. v. Pullman et…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Harris v. PullmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
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