Colton v. Hanchett
Illinois Supreme Court
The facts of this case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The pro formd decree upon the agreement of the parties was entered at March term, 1852, of the Ogle Circuit Court, Wilkinson, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtTrumbull, J.
The complainants, who were tax-payers of Ogle county, filed a bill in chancery to enjoin the board of supervisors of said county from granting to James H. Hanchett, one of the defendants, the sum of one thousand dollars, to aid him in the construction of a toll-bridge across Rock River, at Oregon city, in said county.
Hanchett had been authorized to build the bridge by a special act of the General Assembly, enacted February 17, 1851; and the board of supervisors of Ogle county, by an order passed January 28, 1852, resolved that, on the completion of said bridge by Hanchett, an order should be…
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