People Ex Rel. Downs v. Scully

This is an appeal from the county court of Logan County by appellant, the county collector, from an order and judgment of the court sustaining an objection to the airport tax and ordering refund of said tax paid under protest.

The record discloses a petition was presented to the board of supervisors signed by more than 100 legal voters requesting that an annual tax be levied for the establishment, operation and maintenance of an airport under section 1 of the Airports and Landing Fields Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 15½, par. 84.) On September 10, 1946, pursuant to the petition, the county…