People ex rel. Peer v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

This is an appeal by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and the Southeast and St. Louis Railway Company from a judgment of the county court of Hamilton county overruling the objections of appellants to the delinquent county taxes, the taxes of school district No. 39 and the road and bridge taxes of Twigg and Mayberry townships and ordering sale of their property.

As to the county tax, it was stipulated that the county board levied a total of $32,600 for county purposes, including the item, “miscellaneous, $9000that this item was 27.6 per cent of the entire levy for county purposes;…