People ex rel. Little v. Trustees of Schools

This was an application by the county collector 'of Lee county, in this State, for judgment, in the county court, against section 16, in township 19, range 8, in Lee county, for a special drainage assessment claimed to be due thereon, and delinquent. The trustees of schools in said township-appeared, and filed various objections to the rendition of judgment, all of which the county court overruled, except the first, which it sustained, and refused judgment, and the-collector appeals to this court.

The objection which the court sustained to the assessment was, that this section 16 was school…