Legal Opinion

Andrews v. Board of Supervisors

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1873PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. Henry B. Hopkins, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese

This is an appeal from an order of the judge of the Peoria circuit court made in vacation, dissolving an injunction. Ho point is made upon the regularity of the proceedings, but the case is presented and argued upon its merits.

Appellant had filed his bill in chancery in the Knox circuit court for an injunction to restrain the board of supervisors of that county from building a- jail at Galesburg, the seat of justice of that county. Appellant represented himself as a tax-payer on a large amount of property in Knox county, and denied the necessity for any expenditure of money for such purpose,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sherlock v. Village of WinnetkaIllinois Supreme Court · 1871

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Platter v. Board of CommissionersIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
  2. Prince v. CrockerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
  3. Ex Parte WarfieldCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1899
  4. Mode v. BeasleyIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
  5. County of Coles v. GoehringIllinois Supreme Court · 1904

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