People ex rel. Peterson v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad

This is an appeal from the judgment of the county court of Ford county sustaining the objections of appellee to a portion of the city tax of the city of Gibson for 1895, on the application of the collector for judgment for delinquent taxes.

The city council of Gibson passed a tax levy ordinance for the year 1895, providing for a levy of §5158 for the following purposes, viz.: For officers’ fees and salaries, §1400; for maintaining electric lights, §1200; for streets and alleys, §600; for water-works improvements, §1000; for interest on bonded indebtedness and sinking fund, §858; for…