Appellate Court of Illinois January 16, 1885 (Good v. Allen)

Pillsbury, J.

Under the facts appearing in this record we are of the opinion that the consideration for the note was illegal. We are not aware of any authority conferred upon a village attorney by any law in this State empowering him, by virtue of his office, to take a note payable to himself in satisfaction of a fine regularly imposed by a judicial officer, for an offense against the ordinances