People Ex Rel. Reinhardt v. McRoberts

Plaintiff, the county collector of St. Clair County, prosecutes this direct appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of that county which found for defendants, James W. McRoberts and John J. Hoban, doing business as McRoberts and Hoban, in the plaintiff’s suit to collect unpaid personal property taxes for the years 1951 through 1956, inclusive. Defendants were members of a law firm which was admittedly possessed of taxable personal property during the years in question, but in defense to the action they asserted that the assessment at local level was arbitrary and not based on a…