People Ex Rel. Joseph v. Pennsylvania Railroad

This appeal is prosecuted by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, appellant, from a judgment of the county court of St. Clair County overruling its objection to the 1953 tax levied by and extended on behalf of Non-High School District 202 of St. Clair County. The case comes to this court on direct appeal since revenue is involved.

On Monday, September 28, 1953, which was after the second Tuesday but before the last Tuesday of that month, the district’s board of education adopted a tax levy of $180,000 for the year 1953. A certificate of levy was filed with the county clerk the following day and…