Supervisors v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, the case being thus: A statute of Illinois, of February 16th, 1863, enacts as follows: “The board of supervisors under township organization, in such counties as may be owing debts which their current revenue, under existing laws, is not sufficient to pay, may, if deemed advisable, levy a special tax, not to exceed in any one year one per cent, upon the taxable property of any such county,…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, the case being thus: A statute of Illinois, of February 16th, 1863, enacts as follows: “The board of supervisors under township organization, in such counties as may be owing debts which their current revenue, under existing laws, is not sufficient to pay, may, if deemed advisable, levy a special tax, not to exceed in any one year one per cent, upon the taxable property of any such county, to be assessed and collected in the same manner and at the same time and rate of compensation as other county taxes,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
We have not had the benefit of an oral argument upon either side. The case was submitted upon printed briefs. We shall confine our examination to the points thus brought to our attention.
In the return of the respondents to the alternative writ numerous .objections were taken in regard to which their brief is silent. We take it for granted they have been abandoned, and shall not consider them.
I. It is said the court below, in rendering the judgment, allowed interest upon the coupons from the time they became due.
The judgment cannot be thus collaterally questioned. It can be impeached only in a…
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