People Ex Rel. Willard v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

The appellant, Chicago and North Western Railway Company, objected to part of a school tax for School District No. 57 in Boone County, levied for the year 1944. The school district levied an educational tax of 1.985 per cent under section 189 of the School Law, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 122, par. 212,) authorized by a favorable referendum vote in an election held in 1920 for the purpose of authorizing a tax of 2 per cent. The same section of the statute also provided that said rate “shall continue until authority is revoked in like manner.” There was never any election revoking authority…