University v. People
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the Scate of Illinois. At the June Term, 1875, of th'e County Court of Cook County, Illinois, application, in the manner prescribed by the revenue law of the State, was made by the county collector, for a judgment against lands in that county, delinquent for the taxes levied and assessed upon them for the year 1874, for State, county, town, school, and municipal corporation purposes.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the Scate of Illinois. At the June Term, 1875, of th'e County Court of Cook County, Illinois, application, in the manner prescribed by the revenue law of the State, was made by the county collector, for a judgment against lands in that county, delinquent for the taxes levied and assessed upon them for the year 1874, for State, county, town, school, and municipal corporation purposes. In the list were embraced some four hundred and twenty-seven distinct parcels belonging to the Northwestern University. Pending this application, the University appeared and filed…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois, bringing before us a judgment of that court, deciding that certain property of the plaintiff was liable to taxation, which was resisted, on the ground that it was exempt by a legislative contract.
The university was incorporated by an act of the legislature of the State of Illinois, approved Jan. 28,1851, which contained .the powers necessary to its usefulness as an institution of learning, and, among other provisions, authorized it to purchase and hold real estate to the extent of two thousand acres of land, and receive gifts and…
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