Wilson v. Board of Trustees
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This was a hill for an injunction.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This was a hill for an injunction. Omitting the caption, the bill is as follows: “Marshall J. Wilson, humbly complaining, shows unto your Honors that he is a resident and legal voter of the sanitary district hereinafter described, and that he is, and for many years has been, the owner of real estate situated within the limits of said sanitary district, and that he is also the owner of personal property situated within said sanitary district; that in pursuance of an act passed by the General Assembly of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The contentions in the present case, in behalf of appellant, as formulated by his counsel, are:
First—That the sanitary district is a drainage district, within the meaning of section 31, article 4, of the constitution, and that such provision of the constitution is a limitation upon the powers of the General Assembly to authorize such improvement to be made in any other way than as provided therein, viz., by special assessment.
Second—That the improvement in question is a local improvement, and, under section 9 of article 9 of the constitution, the corporate authorities of cities, towns and…
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