People ex rel. Bothfuhr v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

Kankakee county levied a tax for county purposes of fifty cents on the $100 valuation, and made an additional levy of twenty-five cents on the $100 valuation for “county highway tax.” Appellant filed objections to the levy on the ground the county had no authority to levy a tax in excess of fifty cents on the $100, also that the levy for county highway tax was for the sum of $68,000, “for the purpose of improving, maintaining and repairing the State aid roads required to be improved, maintained and repaired by the county, and for the payment of lands, quarries, pits or other deposits of road…