Lee v. Ruggles
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason County; the Hon. Charles Turner, Judge, presiding. The Circuit Court sustained a demurrer to complainant’s bill and dismissed the same.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was a bill in equity filed by the appellant, John Lee, to remove a cloud upon his title to a certain tract of land in Mason County, by reason of a tax deed, claimed to have been illegally made by the sheriff of said county for the land, in default of payment of two drainage taxes assessed upon it.
By an act of the legislature, approved February 24, 1859, it was provided that, in addition to the State and county tax there should be levied and collected, in the year 1859, a sufficient special tax for draining the same, on certain lands within the county of Mason, which were particularly…
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