Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. People ex rel. Sterling
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Lee county; the Hon. Richard S. Farrand, Judge, presiding. The appellant company filed objections to the rendition of judgment against its property for taxes levied for school purposes for the year 1898 in district No. 1 in the town of Dixon,-in Lee county, the ground of the objection being, there was no valid certificate of the board of education delivered to the township treasurer or returned to the county clerk authorizing the levy of such…
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Appeal from the County Court of Lee county; the Hon. Richard S. Farrand, Judge, presiding. The appellant company filed objections to the rendition of judgment against its property for taxes levied for school purposes for the year 1898 in district No. 1 in the town of Dixon,-in Lee county, the ground of the objection being, there was no valid certificate of the board of education delivered to the township treasurer or returned to the county clerk authorizing the levy of such school tax. On the hearing of the objection the record of the said board of education was produced in evidence, from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The points for decision are, whether the court erred in permitting the certificate to be amended by the addition of the signatures of the said members of the board of education and the substitution of the words “board of education” for the word “directors,” and in holding the certificate, as amended, sufficient to uphold the levy and support a Judgment for unpaid taxes.
In Spring Valley Coal Co. v. People, 157 Ill. 543, we held evidence of the character introduced in the case at bar as to the mode, time and circumstances of the preparation of the certificate was competent to be received, and…
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