People ex rel. Trobaugh v. Chicago & Texas Railroad

The county court of Jackson county sustained the objections of the Chicago and Texas Railroad Company, the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company to certain taxes levied by the board of education of the city of Carbondale and denied judgment therefor, which was duly excepted to by the People, and this appeal brings the action of the county court up for review in this court.

In April, 1904, at an election called and held for that purpose, a majority of the votes cast were in favor of a proposition to build a new school house in said district,…