People Ex Rel. Singer v. Illinois Central Railroad

Appellant filed objections in the county court of Livingston county to the collector’s application for judgment on the road and bridge levies certified by the respective highway commissioners in ten separate townships in said county. The objections were overruled and appellant, having paid seventy-five per cent of the taxes under protest, appeals directly to this court as a question of revenue is involved.

Each of the ten towns involved has outstanding road bond issues authorized by section 112 of the Roads and Bridges act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 121, par. 120) and the county clerk has…