People ex rel. Scott v. Ricketts

■ The county court of Champaign comity rendered judgment against two tracts of land in Davidson Place addition to the city of Champaign, and the question presented by this appeal is whether or not those tracts are exempt from taxation. The addition, which contains twenty-three lots, was laid out in 1.901 upon a tract of about ten acres by a plat made, certified, acknowledged and recorded in conformity to the statute and approved by the city council, upon which appeared a tract of irregular shape, approximately 360 feet long and 218 feet wide, marked “Davidson Park,” ,and surrounded by…