People ex rel. Cline v. Wabash Railroad

An additional road and bridge tax of twenty-five cents on each $100 valuation was extended against the property of the appellant in Sangamon township, in Piatt county, upon the certificate of the highway commissioners and consent of the board of town auditors that such additional rate was required “for the specific and sole purpose of building a bridge and approaches in Madden Lane road across Madden run, in said town; emergency having arisen for the construction of said bridge by reason, of a former bridge across said Madden run having been destroyed and swept away by a freshet.” This appeal…