Butz v. Kerr
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Alfred Sample, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
The defendant in error, Thomas Kerr, filed a bill in the circuit court of Kankakee county, on behalf of himself and other tax-payers and residents of the city of Kankakee, against the plaintiffs in error, Michael Butz and August D. Ehrich, commissioners of highways of the town of Kankakee, and William F. Kenaga, the county clerk, to restrain the collection of a tax of sixty cents on the one hundred dollars levied by the town authorities for road purposes, and extending to persons and property within the corporate limits of the city of Kankakee, in said town. The court having overruled a…
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