Hopkins v. People ex rel. Chestnut

An advertisement of an intended.application at the June term, 1897, of the county court of Edgar county, for judgments against lands and lots delinquent, etc., was published, and E. O. Hopkins, receiver of the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway Company, appeared and filed objections to three items of tax levied against the property in his charge, in Edgar county, for the year 1896. His objections were sustained to all but the tax extended as a town tax for Embarras township. This appeal involves the validity of that tax.

The property of the railroad company in the town of Embarras was…