People Ex Rel. Smith v. Woods

The plaintiff in error, Pat Woods, being the owner of certain lands in LaSalle county, Illinois, on September 26, 1931, attempted to pay the taxes thereon by the use of two checks. One of them was a check on the First National Bank of Ottawa, Illinois, which is not involved in this litigation, and the other one drawn by himself on his own account at the Ottawa Banking and Trust Company. On the date above mentioned, which was Saturday, he delivered these two checks to the county treasurer of LaSalle county at his office in Ottawa and received a receipt for his taxes, on the back of which was…