Ryan v. Anderson
Illinois Supreme Court
The declaration in this case is in debt for eight thousand dollars, on a penal bond of two thousand dollars. First count as inducement alleges, that said school directors, then being, by an act of the legislature of Illinois, constituted a body corporate and politic, organized, and being and acting as such, on the 3rd day of July, 1858, determined by estimate the amount necessary to be expended in said school district, to keep in operation a sufficient number of free schools…
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The declaration in this case is in debt for eight thousand dollars, on a penal bond of two thousand dollars. First count as inducement alleges, that said school directors, then being, by an act of the legislature of Illinois, constituted a body corporate and politic, organized, and being and acting as such, on the 3rd day of July, 1858, determined by estimate the amount necessary to be expended in said school district, to keep in operation a sufficient number of free schools the ensuing year, and the amount necessary for supplying any deficiency in the fund for the payment of teachers, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
It is admitted on both sides, that the bond in suit is not a statutory bond, nor given in such a case as is specified in the statute. (Scates’ Comp. 147.) The injunction, in the first instance, was improvidently granted, and in a case not cognizable in a court of chancery, upon the condition that a bond “ conditioned according to law,” should be executed by the complainants. In the performance of this condition, this bond was executed, conditioned to pay to the appellants, for the use of the inhabitants of school district No. eight, “ all moneys and costs due or to become due, and such…
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