Ryan v. Lynch
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Andrew Lynch, Silas W. Ghee ver, John Hossock, Hugh Hamilton, and Joseph Stout, tax-payers and residents of the town of Ottawa, in LaSalle county, Illinois, against Patrick Ryan, collector, to restrain the defendant from the collection of a tax levied to pay interest on one hundred and fifty bonds of $1000 each, purporting to be the bonds of…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Andrew Lynch, Silas W. Ghee ver, John Hossock, Hugh Hamilton, and Joseph Stout, tax-payers and residents of the town of Ottawa, in LaSalle county, Illinois, against Patrick Ryan, collector, to restrain the defendant from the collection of a tax levied to pay interest on one hundred and fifty bonds of $1000 each, purporting to be the bonds of the township. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
This was a suit in equity, by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in error, to enjoin the collection of a tax which had been levied for the payment of the interest upon certain bonds issued by the supervisor and town clerk of the town of Ottawa, in aid of the Ottawa, Oswego and Fox River Valley Railroad Company.
The principal ground upon which the relief sought by the bill was claimed is, that the act of the General Assembly, pursuant to the provisions of which the bonds were issued, was not enacted in conformity with the requirements of the constitution.
The. court below rendered a…
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