Quincy v. Jackson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF - THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Defendant in error petitioned below for mandamus against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Quincy, the plaintiffs in error, to compel the levy of a tax to pay a judgment recovered against the city.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF - THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Defendant in error petitioned below for mandamus against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Quincy, the plaintiffs in error, to compel the levy of a tax to pay a judgment recovered against the city. The material allegations of the petition were that the judgment was had upon certain coupons of certain bonds of said city, duly issued by the city in payment ‘of its subscription to the capital stock of the Mississippi and Missouri River Air Line Railroad Company, That said bonds recited that they…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
The relator, Jackson, recovered a judgment in the court below against the city of Quincy, Illinois, for the sum of $9,546.24, with costs of suit.
There are no funds in its treasury out of which ithe judgment can be paid, and its corporate authorities' have refused upon demand of -the relator to satisfy it, in the only way in which it can be paid, by a levy of taxes for that specific purpose. The judgment in the present .action, which-was commenced by a petition for mandamus, requires the city council of Quincy to levy and collect a special tax sufficient to discharge the amount thereof, with…
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