Richards v. Donagho
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles H. Gilman, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed September 21,1871, by the appellants, tax-payers and residents of the township of Bruce, in LaSalle county, to restrain the appellee from making a subscription of §15,000 to the capital stock of the Fairbury, Pontiac and Northwestern Bail road Company, and from executing and delivering to the company the bonds of the township.
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Appeal from the County Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles H. Gilman, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed September 21,1871, by the appellants, tax-payers and residents of the township of Bruce, in LaSalle county, to restrain the appellee from making a subscription of §15,000 to the capital stock of the Fairbury, Pontiac and Northwestern Bail road Company, and from executing and delivering to the company the bonds of the township. It appeared that an election was called July 12, 1870, and held August 2, 1870, which resulted in favor of the proposed subscription.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thornton
The only question presented by this record was, after mature deliberation, settled by the opinion in Schall et al. v. Bowman, 62 Ill. 321.
Notwithstanding the able and plausible argument made in this ease, the majority of the court adhere to the, opinion in the case referred to above.
The decree is therefore reversed and the cause remanded.
Decree reversed..
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Schall v. BowmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
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