Leitch v. Wentworth

Per Curiam :

This was a bill in chancery, in the Cook

circuit court, to restrain the collection of a tax alleged to have been illegally assessed for the purpose, in part, of paying a judgment alleged to have been fraudulently obtained against the town of Lyons. The bill was filed by tax-payers of that town, and to which appellants here, who were to be the recipients of these taxes, when collected, were made defendants.

On the hearing, on complainants’ motion, they were dismissed out of the case, and the injunction made perpetual against the other defendants, officers of the town of Lyons, and…