People ex rel. Walsh v. Illinois Central Railroad

This appeal again brings before this court the question of whether the tax authorized by sections 1 and 2 of the County Tuberculosis Sanitariums Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1933, chap. 34, pars. 164 and 165,) for maintenance and for care of patients, may be extended in excess of the maximum rate fixed by section 25 of the Counties Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1933, chap. 34, par. 25.) The 1946 tax of Sangamon County for tuberculosis sanitarium purposes was extended at a rate in excess of the statutory maximum then in effect. An objection by the Illinois Central Railroad to an allegedly excessive tax of…