People ex rel. Prettyman v. Board of Supervisors
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application to this court for a peremptory writ of mandamus, in the name of the people of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Benjamin S. Prettyman and others, constituting the board of directors of the Pekin, Lincoln and Decatur Railroad company, against the board of supervisors of Logan county, to compel them to submit to the legal voters of that county a proposition for subscription to the capital stock of said company to the amount of $300,000, and to…
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This was an application to this court for a peremptory writ of mandamus, in the name of the people of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Benjamin S. Prettyman and others, constituting the board of directors of the Pekin, Lincoln and Decatur Railroad company, against the board of supervisors of Logan county, to compel them to submit to the legal voters of that county a proposition for subscription to the capital stock of said company to the amount of $300,000, and to issue the bonds of said county in payment therefor, with interest at ten per cent, as authorized by the act of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The eleventh section of the act incorporating the Pekin, Lincoln and Decatur Railroad company, declares, that, when the company shall become organized, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of the counties through which the road shall pass, and of which Logan is one, upon the application in writing of the board of directors of the road, to order an election in their proper counties on a day to be named in the application, to determine whether such county will or not subscribe stock to the railroad company; the amount of the stock to be determined by the board of…
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