People ex rel. Lusk v. Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railway Co.

Mr. Chibe Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

The appellant, the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway Company, interposed objections to judgment against its property in the county court of Saline county for various taxes of the year 1913. Some of the objections were overruled and judgment was entered, from which this appeal was prosecuted.

The appellant objected to the excess of the county tax above the constitutional limit of seventy-five cents on each $100 of taxable property and also to one of the items of the tax. The board of- supervisors adopted a resolution levying…