People ex rel. Roche v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This is a tax case. The question involved is whether the tax levy ordinance filed by the village clerk of the village of Thebes, in Alexander county, was a copy of the ordinance or the original. The ordinance filed with the county clerk was typewritten, apparently by the use of carbon paper. It was signed with the genuine signature of the president of the board of trustees and attested with the genuine signature of the village clerk, who had stamped thereon the corporate seal of the village of Thebes. There was also attached to the ordinance filed, the certificate of the clerk that “true and…