Chicago & Iowa Railroad v. Pinckney

Citations

• 74 Ill. 277

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitution—clause relating to municipal subscriptions and donations construed. The object of the proviso to the section of the new constitution relating to municipal subscriptions, was, to save such subscriptions and donations voted in aid of railroads and private corporations prior to its adoption. The saving clause, by a reasonable construction, embraces donations as well as subscriptions, and places them upon the same footing.</p> <p>2. Municipal donation—sufficiency of notice of election. Where the petition filed with the town clerk for an election upon the question of the town donating its bonds in aid of a railroad, stated the time the bonds were to run and the interest they were to bear, as required by law, it was held, that an omission in the notice of the election to state these facts, when the notice recited that the petition was filed in the clerk’s office, would not vitiate the election, as the petition was subject to inspection of any voter desiring to learn the facts.</p>