Holmes v. City of Mattoon

In this case there was an appeal by the city to the Appellate Court for the Third District. In that court a motion was made to dismiss the case, because the city had, under the act of 1879, (Sess. Laws, 222,) appealed without giving bond. It is now urged that section 71, as amended by that act, is unconstitutional, because it relieves all municipal corporations from the law requiring appellants and plaintiffs in error, on obtaining a supersedeas, from giving bond.

It is urged that section is violative of the constitution, because it is special or local legislation. Nothing could be more…