People v. Salomon
Illinois Supreme Court
Tliis^was a proceeding by attachment, in the name of the people, on the relation of the attorney general, against Edward S. Salomon, for an alleged contempt, in failing to obey the command of a peremptory writ of mandamus awarded by this court in the case of The People, on the relation of O. H. Miner, Auditor of Public Accounts, against Edward S. Salomon, Clerk of the County Court of Cook County, 46 Ill. 333, directing the said Salomon, as such clerk, to extend the taxes on…
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Tliis^was a proceeding by attachment, in the name of the people, on the relation of the attorney general, against Edward S. Salomon, for an alleged contempt, in failing to obey the command of a peremptory writ of mandamus awarded by this court in the case of The People, on the relation of O. H. Miner, Auditor of Public Accounts, against Edward S. Salomon, Clerk of the County Court of Cook County, 46 Ill. 333, directing the said Salomon, as such clerk, to extend the taxes on the collectors’ books, in Cook county, according to the increased valuation fixed by the State board of equalization.…
1Opinion of the Court
Edward S. Salomon:
On the fourteenth of October, 1867, the Auditor of Public Accounts of this State, in obedience to law, gave you notice, under his official seal, you then being the clerk of the county court of Cook county, that the State board of equalization had raised the assessed value of property in that county for the purposes of taxation, twenty-four per cent, and that it would be your duty, as such clerk, to extend the taxes on" the collectors’ books, according to such increased valuation. This you declined to do, on the assumed ground that the equalization law was unconstitutional,…
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