Board of Supervisors of Jackson County v. Brush
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Tazewell B. Tanner, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the board of supervisors of Jackson county, against Samuel T. Brush, administrator of the estate of John M. Hanson, deceased, Hugh Crawford, John Ford, William Bradley, Thomas T. Robinson, A. C. Davis, James W. Hall, and the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad Company, to enjoin the delivery of certain county bonds.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Tazewell B. Tanner, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by the board of supervisors of Jackson county, against Samuel T. Brush, administrator of the estate of John M. Hanson, deceased, Hugh Crawford, John Ford, William Bradley, Thomas T. Robinson, A. C. Davis, James W. Hall, and the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad Company, to enjoin the delivery of certain county bonds. The opinion of the court states the facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
This bill was for an injunction and decree that two hundred undated bonds, each for the sum of §1000, prepared under an order of the county court of Jackson county, and delivered to John M. Hanson, Hugh Crawford and John Ford, in trust for the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad Company, be surrendered up to the corporate authorities of the county, and that the orders of the county court of that county made on the 10th day of August, 1871, authorizing and directing that two subscriptions, each for the sum of §100,000, be made to the capital stock of the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad Company, be…
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