People Ex Rel. Carter v. Touchette

In December, 1953, the board of supervisors of St. Clair County appropriated for and levied a tax for county corporate purposes in the amount of $648,283.50. To produce such an amount, the county clerk would have been required to extend the tax at a rate of .10 cents on each $100 valuation, a rate well within the .125 cents limit set in section 25.05 of the Counties Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 34, par. 25.05.) The clerk, however, on approximately June 1, 1954, extended the tax at a rate of .0840 cents on the $100, which, in the absence of authorization for a higher rate by the legal…