People Ex Rel. Clark v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

Appellant objected to judgment for delinquent taxes. In each of the townships of Jefferson county the commissioner of highways levied for road and bridge purposes sixty-six cents on each $100 of property value, fifty cents of which levy was by virtue of section 56 of the Road and Bridge act and sixteen cents of the amount was with the consent of the boards of town auditors of the various townships, entered at special meetings regularly called and held before the first Tuesday in September. The county court overruled all objections, and appellant brings the cause here for review.

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