In re the Apportionment of the Railroad School Tax of 1875 & 1876

The following are the agreed facts : The Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company paid to the collector of Caldwell county the sum of f5,787.47 as and for the school taxes on the value of railroad property apportioned to Caldwell county for the years 1875 and 1876. There are in the county sixty-nine school districts. Through twelve of these districts the road runs; and there are fifty-seven districts through which the road does not run. Plaintiffs filed their motion asking that all the school tax be distributed to the districts through which the road runs. The county court overruled the motion,…