People ex rel. Stuckart v. Casey

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Cook county sustaining appellees’ objections to a part of the taxes assessed against their property and denying the application of the county collecter for judgment.

There were five pieces of property involved. The substance of the objections is that the properties were assessed in 1915 for the quadrennial period by the assessors at certain valuations specified, and afterwards the board of review, without notice to the owners and persons interested, increased the assessed values from fifty to three hundred per cent, setting out the…