People Ex Rel. Orrison v. Gibson

The county collector of Piatt county applied to the county court of that county for judgment and order of sale against real property returned delinquent for non-payment of the taxes levied for the year 1927. J. W. Gibson filed objections with respect to a certain parcel of land. His objections were overruled, judgment was rendered, and he prosecutes this appeal from that judgment.

Appellant, a hardware merchant in the village of Hammond, in Piatt county, delivered to the local assessor a schedule of the personal property in his possession on the first day of April, 1927. The assessor fixed the…