City of Chicago v. People ex rel. Miller

The county court of Cook county rendered a judgment against certain lands for the taxes of 1874, on the application of the collector, and the city appeals to this court.

The lands are held in the name of the city, and exclusively for the use of the public schools therein. The city has the sole charge of public schools within its limits, and these lands were purchased by the city on the foreclosure of mortgages taken to secure loans of money arising from the sale of the 16th section in township 39 north, in range 14 east of the third principal meridian, and which had been donated by the general…