CITY OF GALENA v. AMY, 72 U.S. 705 (1866)

CITY OF GALENA v. AMY. DECEMBER TERM, 1866. 1. Where an act, amending a city charter, says that the city council “may, if it believe that the public good, and the best interests of the city require” it, levy a tax to pay its funded debt, a mandamus will lie, at the suit of a […]

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72 U.S. 705

72 U.S. 705 72 U.S. 705 18 L.Ed. 560 5 Wall. 705 CITY OF GALENAv.AMY. December Term, 1866 THE fourth section of a statute of Illinois, passed June 21, 1852, and incorporating the city of Galena, declares that the city council ‘may, if the said city council believe that the public good and the best […]

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