Legal Opinion

Sawyer v. City of Alton

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1841PublishedCited by 3 opinions

This cause was heard in the Madison Circuit Court, at the February term, 1840, before the Hon. Sidney Breese.

1Opinion of the CourtTreat, Justice

This was an action Alton, by the defiendan* recover the penalty of of the “Act to Incorjj 21st of July, 1837, for • streets. Judgment was. for the amount claimed, in error to the Circuit Court, and the judgme W-ed before the mayor of the city of error, against the plaintiff in error, to , dollars, imposed by the tenth section i the City of Alton,” (2) approved the pre to perform three days labor on the vred in favor of the defendant in error, n appeal prosecuted by the plaintiff ,,-where the cause was tried by the ■e mayor affirmed.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re BradstreetNew York Supreme Court · 1816

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. People v. ColemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1854
  2. Comm'rs of Ottawa Co. v. NelsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
  3. Salt Lake City v. WilsonUtah Supreme Court · 1915

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