Law v. People Ex Rel. Henry B. Miller.
| Decision Date | 30 September 1875 |
| Citation | 80 Ill. 268,1875 WL 8749 |
| Parties | FRANCIS B. LAWv.THE PEOPLE ex rel. Henry B. Miller. |
| Court | Illinois Supreme Court |
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APPEAL from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. MARTIN R. M. WALLACE, Judge, presiding.
This was an application, by Henry B. Miller, collector of Cook county, for judgment against certain real estate, for delinquent assessments thereon. The real estate of the appellant was described as follows: “ The county court, notwithstanding objections filed, rendered judgment for the amount of the special assessment, from which the defendant appealed.
Mr. WILLIAM BERDIN, for the appellant.
Mr. JAMES P. ROOT, for the appellee.
This appeal is from a judgment on a special assessment for park purposes. Under the reasoning in The People ex rel. v. Brislin et al. post, p. 423, the assessment and judgment are valid, and we will not discuss the questions raised, further in this opinion.
The description of the property given is sufficiently accurate and definite for all the purposes of the assessment. According to the doctrine of Colcord v. Alexander, 67 Ill. 581, any description adopted in a deed by which the premises intended to be conveyed may be established and identified is sufficient, and a grant or devise will only be declared void for uncertainty, when, after resort to oral proof, it still remains a matter of mere conjecture what was intended by the instrument. It is apprehended the rule may be less stringent as to description of property for taxation, than in a grant or conveyance intended to pass the title absolutely. Any description by which the property may be identified by a competent surveyor, with reasonable certainty, either with or without the aid of extrinsic evidence, will be sufficient.
In this case, we think any competent surveyor, even from the description given, without any extrinsic aid, could locate and determine what property was assessed, and that, under all the authorities, is sufficient.
Objection is made, the delinquent list and the affidavits to the record of the same are insufficient. We are unable to perceive in what particular there is any defect. According to the decision in Andrews v. The People, 75 Ill. 605, the general revenue act of 1872...
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