People Ex Rel. Dooley v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

By this appeal appellant seeks the reversal of a judgment of the county court of McLean county which overruled its objections to a county tax for pauper relief purposes for the year 1936.

Appellant’s objection to taxes in the amount of $570.11, extended for pauper relief purposes at a rate in excess of the maximum rate of twenty-five cents for general county purposes, was that, as McLean county is under township organization form of government, it was not, at the time the levy was made, charged with the duty of relieving the poor of the county, therefore the county board of supervisors was…