People ex rel. Goedtner v. Pederson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. W. H. Hinebaugh, Judge, presiding. This was an application by the county collector of LaSalle county, made to the county court of that county, for judgment and order of sale against certain property belonging to the appellees, claimed to be delinquent on account of unpaid taxes for the year 1904, extended against said property by virtue of an appropriation ordinance and tax levy ordinance passed by the village of…
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Appeal from the County Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. W. H. Hinebaugh, Judge, presiding. This was an application by the county collector of LaSalle county, made to the county court of that county, for judgment and order of sale against certain property belonging to the appellees, claimed to be delinquent on account of unpaid taxes for the year 1904, extended against said property by virtue of an appropriation ordinance and tax levy ordinance passed by the village of Sheridan. The appellees filed written objections questioning the validity of the tax on the ground that their lands were not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The only question arising upon this record is whether the facts contained in the stipulation constitute a bar to the collection of the tax.
Appellees’ defense in the court below was, that the village of Sheridan organized in 1903, which was the one that included their lands, had no existence because of the fact that a prior corporation of the same name and organized under the same statute occupied all of the territory included in the former except a small part, containing only eleven adults and fourteen children. The record of proceedings in the nature of quo warranto instituted against the…
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