People ex rel. Cox v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

Appellant objected in the county court of Crawford county to a judgment for an excess of $74.54 taxes assessed against it by the village of Elat Rock, in said county. The first ground of objection was that the village tax was extended at the rate of forty-two and two-thirds cents on each $100 valuation in excess of the statutory maximum rate of $1,331/3 ; that said excess in the rate was occasioned by an item of $1750 included in the appropriation and levy ordinance of the village for the year 1920 which was levied “for the payment of the judgment rendered against the village of Elat Rock,…