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UNIVERSITY v. PEOPLE

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99 U.S. 309 (1879)

25 L.Ed. 387

UNIVERSITY, v. PEOPLE.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 7, 1879.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Matt. H. Carpenter and Mr. Wirt Dexter for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. James K. Edsall, Attorney-General of Illinois, and Mr. Consider H. Willett, contra.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois, bringing before us a judgment of that court, deciding that certain property of the plaintiff was liable to taxation, which was resisted, on the ground that it was exempt by a legislative contract.

The university was incorporated by an act of the legislature of the...

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