Protest of Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Tax Review sustaining the protest of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company as to the current expense fund of the town of Comanche, Okla., for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1930, reducing the amount of the appropriation therefor and reducing the rate of levy therefor.

The protestee, the town of Comanche, defended the appropriation and rate of levy for the current expense fund, as fixed by order of the excise board, on the theory, as shown by the case-made, “that the appropriation asked for in the budget is for the payment of…