People ex rel. Reynolds v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Appellee filed its objection in the county court of LaSalle county to the tax levied by the county board for the establishment and maintenance of the LaSalle county detention home. The tax was computed at the rate of one mill on the dollar valuation, and appellee’s tax amounted to $876.63. By stipulation of the parties the amount was abated one-third, owing to the amendment of the Detention Home act of 1919 reducing the rate to two-thirds of a mill. The cause was heard on the objection to $584.42 balance of the tax. The county court sustained the objection and abated the tax.

Appellee contends…