Mount Carbon Coal & Railroad v. Blanchard

Citations

• 54 Ill. 240

Syllabus

<p>1. Joinder on parties complainant in chancery. Where a tax is sought to be levied without authority, several property owners, having a common interest in the subject, and asking relief against the same injury on the same ground, may join in a bill to restrain its collection.</p> <p>2. Multifariotjsness. Where several property owners join in a bill in chancery, to restrain the collection of an illegal tax assessed against them severally, asking relief against the same injury on the same ground, that is not joining in one bill such distinct and independent matters as will render the bill multifarious.</p> <p>3. School tax—power of school directors without a vote of the people. Under the forty-fourth section of the school law of 1865, school directors may levy a tax of one per cent upon property in the district, for school purposes, without being specially authorized so to do by a vote of the people ; but a tax levied by the directors for the purpose of building a school house, without a vote of the people favorable to such purpose being first had, as required in section forty-eight of that act, is unauthorized and illegal.</p>