Mix v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. 0. T. Reeves, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in chancery to foreclose a lien against certain lands and town lots in Kankakee county, for taxes thereon, under section 253 of the Revenue act of 1872, which reads as follows: “Taxes upon real property, together with all penalties, interest and costs that may accrue thereon, shall be a prior first lien on such real property, superior to -all other liens and…
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. 0. T. Reeves, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in chancery to foreclose a lien against certain lands and town lots in Kankakee county, for taxes thereon, under section 253 of the Revenue act of 1872, which reads as follows: “Taxes upon real property, together with all penalties, interest and costs that may accrue thereon, shall be a prior first lien on such real property, superior to -all other liens and incumbrances, from and including the first day of May, in the year in which the taxes are levied, until the same are paid,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Tunnicliff
Various exceptions were taken to the answers in this case, for immateriality, irrelevancy, and on account of scandalous matter contained in them; but the exceptions do not, as they should do, set forth the parts of the answers excepted to. It is referred to only as set forth on certain specified pages and lines of the answers, and as their paging has not been, by the circuit clerk, preserved in the record, we are unable to say, therefore, whether the exceptions were properly sustained or not.
The plaintiffs in error sought, first by demurrer, and after-wards by their answers, to question the…
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