People ex rel. Coffman v. Illinois Central Railroad

The county court of Macon county overruled the objections of the Illinois Central Railroad Company to the application of the county collector for judgment against its property for certain delinquent taxes for the year 1923, and the railroad company has appealed.

The taxes involved were the excess over the rate of fifty cents on the $100 of the road and bridge taxes of several towns and the school tax of district No. 93. The question is common to the road and bridge taxes in all of the towns, and that is the validity of the consent of the board of town auditors to the levy of an additional rate…