Wilkey v. City of Pekin

This was an action of .assumpsit. The cause was submitted to the court upon the following agreed statement of facts:

That the defendant is a corporation, duly incorporated as a city under the general law, entitled “An Act to Incorporate Towns and Cities,” approved February 10th, 1849, and acting as such under the act incorporating the cities of Quincy and Springfield; that the plaintiff is a resident of said city, and was a resident thereof at the time of the tax hereinafter stated.

That the plaintiff, at the time of the assessment of the tax, was part owner of the steamboat called the…