County of Richland v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence county; the Hon. James C. Aller, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
In this case is involved the question of the liability of the county of Biehland for an alleged subscription of $150,000 to the capital stock of the G-rayville & Mattoon Bail-road Company; that it is claimed was authorized by a vote of the people of the county at an election held on the 7th day of April, 1868, and made by an order of the Board of Supervisors of the county, on the 11th day of December, 1868.
It is evident that such subscription cannot be sustained under the general act of Hovember 6th, 1849, as under said act subscriptions could not exceed the sum of $100,000: Laws 2nd Sess.…
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