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66 Ill. 73

Richards v. Donagho

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1872

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1872-09-15

Charles H. Gilman, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed September 21,1871, by the appellants, tax-payers and residents of the township of Bruce, in LaSalle county, to restrain the appellee from making a subscription of §15,000 to the capital stock of the Fairbury, Pontiac and Northwestern Bail road Company, and from executing and delivering to the company the bonds of the township.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1884

1 state decisions

Relies on Schall v. Bowman

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Decided 1872-09-15

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Mr. Justice Thornton

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2The only question presented by this record was, after mature deliberation, settled by the opinion in Schall et al. v. Bowman, 62 Ill. 321.

¶3Notwithstanding the able and plausible argument made in this ease, the majority of the court adhere to the, opinion in the case referred to above.

¶4The decree is therefore reversed and the cause remanded.

¶5Decree reversed..

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