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Title: Lower Et Al. v. United States Ex Rel.
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1875
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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The answer in this case presents no valid defence. The object of the petition is to compel the plaintiffs in error, as town-auditors, to audit a judgment rendered against the town of Ohio upon overdue coupons attached to bonds issued by that municipal corporation, so that it can be placed in process of collection, in accordance with the Illinois township law. This law provides specifically for the auditing of town-charges, among which judgments are included, and for the levy of taxes to pay them (Rev. Stat. of Ill. 1874, p. 1080); but the plaintiffs in error say that judgments like the one in question can only be collected through the mode pointed out in the Funding Act of April 16, 1869. Id. 791 et seq. If this were so, the relator would be placed in an unfortunate predicament, as he could neither sue out an execution upon the judgment, nor resort to local taxation to collect it, nor oblige the State to pay it.