Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 269

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Page 251 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 316 - ... sufficient to satisfy the jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, of the guilt of the defendant, and in that event she should be acquitted.
Page 218 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor or property actually received, and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created; and all stock dividends, and other fictitious increase of the capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation, shall be void.
Page 89 - Kaighn, who alleged that at the time of the making of the will so admitted to probate the testator was not of sound and disposing mind and memory...
Page 34 - Every manager, before entering upon the duties of his office, and within ten days after notice of his appointment...
Page 628 - ... where the owner leases premises which are a nuisance, or must in the nature of things become so by their user, and receives rent, then, whether in or out of possession, he is liable.
Page 138 - All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate I give, devise and bequeath to...
Page 328 - If any person who is liable to contribute to the erection or repair of a division fence, shall neglect or refuse to make and maintain his proportion of such fence, or shall permit the same to be out of repair, he shall be liable to pay...
Page 254 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 42 - ... that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.

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