Wagner v. City of Rock Island
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Bock Island county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Bock Island county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by George Wagner against the city of Bock Island, to have a certain ordinance ■of the city fixing the rates or taxes to be paid by persons using water from the city water works held invalid and set aside, and for an accounting as to the water rates or taxes justly payable by the complainant, and also for an injunction restraining the city and its officers from shutting off the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
As we understand the bill, the complainant bases his right to the relief prayed for upon two grounds, (1) that the ordinance of March 18, 1889, provides for the imposition and collection Of water rates and taxes in excess of the actual cost of maintaining and operating its water works, and is therefore unjust, oppressive and unreasonable; and (2) that the provisions of the ordinance are unjustly and unequally enforced, so as to compel the complainant to pay more than his just proportion of the water rates or taxes collected by the city.
It will be noticed, as bearing upon the first of these…
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