People ex rel. Sanders v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

H. M. Sanders, county collector of Madison county, applied for judgments and orders of sale against the property of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, the St. Louis, Rock Island and Chicago Railroad Company, the receivers of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway Company and the Litchfield and Madison Railway Company, the appellants, for delinquent taxes for the year 1909. " The county tax had been extended by the county clerk at the rate of seventy-four cents on each $100 of the assessed valuation of property, and the several railroad companies paid the tax on their property at the…