Fox v. City of Rockford
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a suit instituted in the Police Court of the City of Rockford, in the name of the city, against Heman Fox, to recover a penalty for failing to perform road labor, under an ordinance of said city. The cause was removed into the Circuit Court by appeal, where a trial was had, resulting in a judgment against the defendant for the sum of two dollars.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a suit instituted in the Police Court of the City of Rockford, in the name of the city, against Heman Fox, to recover a penalty for failing to perform road labor, under an ordinance of said city. The cause was removed into the Circuit Court by appeal, where a trial was had, resulting in a judgment against the defendant for the sum of two dollars. He thereupon took this appeal. The only question arising upon the record is, whether the city has authority to assess road labor upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
The only question presented by this record is, as to the power of the City of Rockford to assess road labor against persons over sixty years of age, and compel such persons to perform such labor, if not commuted by payment of a tax. The charter, in terms, gives the Common Council power “ to require every male inhabitant in said city, of twenty-one years of age, to labor on the streets.”
It is urged that the ordinance carrying into effect this clause of the charter is a violation of Sec. 1, Art. 9 of the Constitution, which exempts persons over sixty years of age from the payment of a…
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