Swigert v. County of Hamilton
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the payment of money alleged to be in the State treasury belonging to the petitioner.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the payment of money alleged to be in the State treasury belonging to the petitioner. It is alleged in the petition, that in October and November, 1871, the petitioner, Hamilton county, issued and delivered to the St. Louis and Southeastern Bailway Company, $200,000 of its bonds, payable in twenty years, with seven per cent interest, payable on the first days of January and July of each year,—which bonds were duly registered in the office of the Auditor of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The act of June 10,1885, under which the petition is filed, is entitled “An act making provision for the refunding of surplus funds that are now or hereafter may be in the State treasury to the credit of bond funds of counties, cities, towns, townships, school districts, or other municipal corporations, having bonds registered in the office of the Auditor of Public-Accounts, when such bonds have .been paid or cancelled, or-when the bonds purporting to have been issued by any county, etc., and registered in the office of the Auditor aforesaid, shall be held, or the law under which said bonds…
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