Board of Supervisors of Fulton County v. Mississippi & Wabash Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was commenced by bill in chancery, filed in the Fulton Circuit Court, October 9, 1857, by the Board of Supervisors of Fulton county, against the Mississippi and Wabash Railroad Company, and John W. Ingersoll, William N. Cline, A. L. Hasleton, Thompson Maple, and John H. Piersol, requiring several and respective answers from them under oath, and praying an injunction, restraining the issuance of $60,000, of the bonds of said county, to the central division of said…
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This cause was commenced by bill in chancery, filed in the Fulton Circuit Court, October 9, 1857, by the Board of Supervisors of Fulton county, against the Mississippi and Wabash Railroad Company, and John W. Ingersoll, William N. Cline, A. L. Hasleton, Thompson Maple, and John H. Piersol, requiring several and respective answers from them under oath, and praying an injunction, restraining the issuance of $60,000, of the bonds of said county, to the central division of said railroad company, and, also, to enjoin'the disposal of $12,000, out of $15,000, of such bonds, then already issued to…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
Very many important questions are presented by this record, and ably argued by counsel; but we do not deem it necessary to notice all of them, inasmuch as we are satisfied one of them alone is quite sufficient to determine the case in favor of the appellants. There are, however, some questions of practice determined against the appellants, which ought to be noticed for the government of future cases in chancery, and which, we think, were erroneously determined, and might, of themselves, be sufficient to reverse the decree.
It appears, by the record, that the answer of the individual defendants…
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