Howell v. City of Peoria
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. J. W. Cochean, Judge, presiding. The bill in chancery in this case, filed on the 7th day of April, 1877, by citizens and tax-payers of the city of Peoria, sets forth that at a meeting of the city council of the city of Peoria, on March 30, 1877, the annual appropriation bill or ordinance was passed, in which was incorporated an item providing for the appropriation of the sum of $11,000 for a certain water works pump,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. J. W. Cochean, Judge, presiding. The bill in chancery in this case, filed on the 7th day of April, 1877, by citizens and tax-payers of the city of Peoria, sets forth that at a meeting of the city council of the city of Peoria, on March 30, 1877, the annual appropriation bill or ordinance was passed, in which was incorporated an item providing for the appropriation of the sum of $11,000 for a certain water works pump, known as a “New Dean Pump;” that on the 4th day of April, 1877, a committee appointed by the city council executed on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The bill in this case, showing that the city of Peoria, at the time of the passage of the appropriation bill or ordinance in question, was already indebted to an amount largely- in excess of the constitutional limit, the cases of City of Springfield v. Edwards, 84 Ill. 626, and Law v. The People, 87 id. 395, must be regarded as governing the present decision, and as authority for the injunction asked for, at least to the extent of restraining the levy or application of any tax for the payment of this additional indebtedness.
It is suggested, on the part of appellee, that there is no occasion…
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