Leitch v. Wentworth

Citations

• 71 Ill. 146

Syllabus

<p>1. Ikjunction—of the collection of taxes far fraudulent purposes. If a bill to restrain town officers from the collection of a tax alleges fraud in the levy of the taxes to pay a judgment fraudulently recovered against the town, this will give the court jurisdiction to grant the relief prayed.</p> <p>3. Parties defendant to hill to enjoin tax. On bill to restrain town officers from the collection of taxes fraudulently levied to pay an unauthorized judgment, the parties to whom the taxes are to go, if collected, are not necessary parties, and it is not error to dismiss them from the case, where they have not filed a cross-bill.</p>