Kickapoo Drainage District v. City of Mattoon
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Coles county; the Hon. John H. Marshall, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiep Justice Duncan
delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant in error, the Kickapoo Drainage District,, on April 3, 1917, filed a petition for a writ of 'mandamus in the circuit court of Coles county against the city of Mattoon, in said county, praying that a peremptory writ be directed against the city, its mayor and council, commanding them to pay from funds in their hands past-due installments of an assessment levied by said district against the city. A general demurrer to the petition being overruled, four special pleas were filed, to which pleas the defendant in error filed a…
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