People ex rel. Weber v. Ohio & Mississippi Railroad

This was an application, by the county collector, for judgment for delinquent taxes, against a number of town lots in East St. Louis. When the assessment was made, blocks 2, 19 and 22, in the Frary sub-division, were divided into lots, each block containing thirty lots. The three blocks are adjoining, and extend 900 feet east and west, and 450 feet north and south. A strip of 200 feet in width, on the north side of these blocks, was used and assessed as a railroad track, the taxes on which were paid for the year in question, leaving a strip of 250 feet on the south side subject to taxation as…