Harris v. People ex rel. Knight
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Mazzini Slusser, Judge, presiding. This was an application by the county collector of Du-Page county, made at the June term, 1905, of the county court of that county, for judgment and order of sale against certain property belonging to S. R. Harris, the appellant, located in the village of Lombard, upon which a special tax, levied by authority of the village board of said village, remained due and unpaid.
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Appeal from the County Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Mazzini Slusser, Judge, presiding. This was an application by the county collector of Du-Page county, made at the June term, 1905, of the county court of that county, for judgment and order of sale against certain property belonging to S. R. Harris, the appellant, located in the village of Lombard, upon which a special tax, levied by authority of the village board of said village, remained due and unpaid. Harris filed a number of objections to the application, which, upon a hearing before the court, •were overruled, and on June 17, 1905,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Appellant contends that the ordinance of September 20 did not repeal the ordinance of July 21, as amended by the ordinance of August 18, and that the ordinance last above mentioned is therefore the one under which the improvement was made, and that as such amended ordinance neither established any grade nor referred to any grade then established, the improvement was illegally made and the special tax is void.
There is no merit in this contention. It is immaterial whether or not the amended ordinance was repealed by the ordinance of September 20. The amended ordinance did not establish any…
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