Legal Opinion

Wiggins Ferry Co. v. People ex rel. Weber

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 18, 1882PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Writ of Error to the County Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. Frederick H. Pieper, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon

The plea here filed in this court of a former adjudication in the Appellate Court, is the same as the first plea in the case of Page & Buckland v. The People, 99 Ill. 418, and for the reasons there given the demurrer to the plea is sustained.

The only error assigned upon the record is, that the county court erred in rendering judgment for more than ten mills on the dollar of the equalized valuation.

In Weber v. Traubel, 95 Ill. 428, we held that such a judgment, as applied to taxation in East St. Louis, was erroneous,—that that city was limited by its charter to a levy of one per cent on the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Page v. People ex rel. WeberIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  2. Randolph v. EmerickIllinois Supreme Court · 1851
  3. Parsons v. EvansIllinois Supreme Court · 1855

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Alley v. McCabeIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  2. People ex rel. McGough v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1902
  3. City of Rockford v. ComptonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1904
  4. McChesney v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  5. People ex rel. Kellogg v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1915

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