Thatcher v. People ex rel. Johnson

Citations

• 98 Ill. 632
• 1881 Ill. LEXIS 303

Syllabus

<p>1. School district—of the notice of election. Notices of a school election, specifying the time and place of the meeting, and stating the object of the meeting to be the establishment of a school in the district, “and providing means to pay for the same,” but making no reference to the subject of borrowing money or issuing bonds, are insufficient to authorize the issue of bonds by the directors for money borrowed. Such a notice is fatally defective.</p> <p>2. Taxes—when party is estopped to question legality. A tax-payer who attends' an election called in a school district, and in person seconds a motion to raise money by borrowing and issuing bonds of the district, will be estopped from questioning the validity of what was done under the authority of those proceedings, although the notice of such meeting was fatally defective, and he will not be allowed to dispute the legality of a tax levied to pay the interest or principal of such bonds, when issued under the vote of such meeting.</p>