Board of Supervisors v. Webster

Citations

• 53 Ill. 141

Syllabus

<p>1. Tax—/or building bridges—what number of supervisors necessary to levy the same. Less than a majority of the whole number of the board of supervisors in a county, can not appropriate funds to aid in the construction of bridges. Nor can less than a majority levy a tax for that purpose.</p> <p>2. So an order of less than a majority of the whole number of supervisors in Cumberland county, making a levy for the purpose of building a bridge, under the act of the nineteenth of February, 1867, authorizing the board of supervisors of Cumberland county to levy and collect a special tax for the purpose of building bridges, was unauthorized and void.</p> <p>3. Injunction to restrain the collection of a torn. Where less than a majority of a board of supervisors of a county have undertaken to levy a tax for bridge purposes, equity will interpose to restrain its collection, as being levied without legal authority.</p>