Walgenbach v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co. and certain other taxpayers paid their assessed taxes for the year 1978 under protest contending that the 1978 assessment was invalid as to their property because no proper notice was given of an increase in the equalization factor as applied by the McHenry County Board of Review to their property. The county made application for judgment against the protesting taxpayers who filed objections to the application. After a hearing on the merits, the circuit court gave judgment for the taxpayers for the amount protested, which was based on the increase in the…