People ex rel. James v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is an appeal by the Illinois Central Railroad Company from a judgment of the county court of Kane county, rendered against it for certain alleged delinquent taxes, amounting to $74.34, extended for the town of St. Charles, in that county, and designated as a library tax.

At the annual town election in the town of St. Charles, held in April, 1905, upon a petition properly filed, the proposition “Por a two mill tax for a free public library” received a majority of the votes cast. Since then no levy of taxes has been voted by the electors at the annual town meeting for the library, but each…