People ex rel. Stuckart v. N. J. Sandberg Co.

This appeal is from a judgment for the taxes of 1916 against the appellant’s real estate in Cook county.

It is objected that the county tax was not properly scaled in accordance with the act of 1901, concerning the levy and extension of taxes, and its amendments. (Hurd’s Stat. 1916, p. 2229.) The county levy ordinance levied $1,514,162.50 for the principal and interest of bonds, $244,334.50 for judgments, and for general purposes $5,172,962.50, which included $325,000 for loss and cost of collection of taxes levied for general county purposes. To raise the amount of the appropriation for…