People Ex Rel. Smith v. Wabash Railway Co.

By this appeal appellants seek the reversal of a judgment of the county court of Pike county overruling their objections to county and non-high school district taxes levied for the year 1938. The cause was tried upon a stipulation of facts.

Appellant railway company was assessed for the county taxes in the amount of $3194.13, and for non-high school district taxes $5029.49. Appellants, receivers of said railway company, paid seventy-five per cent of the taxes under protest and filed objections to judgment for delinquent taxes. Its objections to the county tax were, as to all the tax, that it…