People ex rel. Woods v. Scott

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Edgar county sustaining objections to an application for judgment against certain lands of V. M. Scott in Prairie township, in said county, for a delinquent special hard road tax. On the hearing below the objector relied on his first objection only, viz., that the petition to the supervisor asking him to call a special- election‘to vote on the proposition to authorize the tax in question was not signed by one hundred freeholders of said town of Prairie ór by a majority of such freeholders, as required by paragraph 248a of chapter 121 of…