State v. Sullivan
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon. Charles E. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was an application made at the May Term, 1866, of the County Court of Livingston county, for judgment against the delinquent lands of said county for the taxes of 1865, and afterward removed to the Circuit Court of said county, where the cause was tried hy the court, without a jury, on motion for a judgment against the lands for the taxes due thereon, which motion the…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon. Charles E. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was an application made at the May Term, 1866, of the County Court of Livingston county, for judgment against the delinquent lands of said county for the taxes of 1865, and afterward removed to the Circuit Court of said county, where the cause was tried hy the court, without a jury, on motion for a judgment against the lands for the taxes due thereon, which motion the court denied, and judgment was entered and execution awarded against the plaintiff in error, to reverse which judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was an application for judgment against certain lands for taxes. The application was denied in the Circuit Court.
The legislature passed a law, which took effect February 2, 1865, authorizing certain counties therein named, and including the county of Livingston, whence this suit comes, to levy a tax to pay bounties to volunteers for the army of the United States. Subsequent to the passage of the law, and about the last of February or first of March, 1865, a public meeting was called in the town of Sullivan, and a subscription paper circulated for the purpose of raising, immediately, a…
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- Drake v. PhillipsIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
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- Sullivan v. StateIllinois Supreme Court · 1872