Board of Supervisors v. Jenks
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Du Page county; the Hon. Silvanus Wilcox, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
There were instituted two suits in chancery, in the Du Page circuit court, one by Charles Jenkins and a number of the citizens of the town of Naperville, and the other by Edmund E. Page and a number of citizens of the town of Lisle, both townships in the county of Du Page, for the purpose of restraining the collection of all taxes levied in those towns for the year 1868.
The bills were against the collectors, and the board of supervisors of the county were admitted to defend. The bills both, proceed upon the ground that the tax is unconstitutional and void.
The court below, on the hearing,…
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