Tamm v. Lavalle
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This was a suit in equity, brought by appellants in the St. Clair circuit court, against appellee, to compel the specific performance of a contract for a lease of a portion of the Cahokia Commons.
The authority of the supervisor to lease these commons is conferred by an act of the General Assembly approved on the 17th day of February, 1841, (Sess. Laws, p. 65,) and an act approved on the 18th day of February, 1857, (Private Laws, p. 1203). By the former act the supervisor of the village was authorized to cause the commons of the village to be surveyed, platted and recorded, and to lease the…
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