Springfield & Illinois Southeastern Railway Co. v. County Clerk

This is an original proceeding in this court, commenced by the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern Railway Co., for a mandamus to compel the county clerk of Wayne county to extend a tax on all the taxable property in Barnhill township in that county, to raise a sum sufficient in the aggregate to pay the amount of a donation alleged to have been made by a vote of the inhabitants, on the 10th day of November, 1868, to the “Illinois Southeastern Railway Company.” The petitioners bring this suit for the use of Cutler, Dodge & Co.

By the act of the general assembly, approved February 25, 186Í,…