People Ex Rel. Toman v. Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad

Bloom Township High School District No. 206, in Cook and Will counties, levied $172,173 for educational purposes for the year 1938, and a rate of $1.26 on each $100 of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the district located in Cook county was extended by the county clerk of Cook county. The defendant, the Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad Company, the owner of property in Cook county, paid its taxes in full, under protest. Thereafter, when the relator, the county collecter, applied for a judgment against and an order for the sale of real estate for the non-payment of…