People Ex Rel. Johnson v. Southern Railway Co.

The 1935 tax levy of Wayne county for county purposes included seventeen cents for county bonds in addition to twenty-five cents for general purposes. Objections of the Southern Railway Company to the item for county bonds were overruled, judgment was rendered for the tax and for sale of its property, and the company prosecutes this appeal.

The validity of the taxes levied for county bonds is challenged on the ground that the proceedings for their issuance, and the levying of a tax to pay them, did not comply with the applicable statute. Section 1 of “An act to enable counties having a…