City of Moline v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

■ This is an appeal from a judgment against certain property of the appellant, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, rendered in a special tax proceeding brought by the city of Moline for the assessment of the cost of paving Third avenue, in said city. The petition was filed in the office of the clerk of the county court on June 13, 1913, and presented to the Hon. Benjamin S. Bell, probate judge of Rock Island county, who had been requested by said clerk to organize and hold the June term, 1913, of said county court, the regularly elected county judge of said county having…