People Ex Rel. Schlaeger v. Bunge Bros. Coal Co.

The county collector has appealed from a judgment of the county court of Cook county sustaining certain objections to the collector’s application for judgment and order of sale for 1941 delinquent taxes. Appellees paid the taxes under protest, and, in accordance with section 194 of the Revenue Act of 1939, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 120, par. 675,) filed objections asking a refund of the portions of the tax alleged to have been illegally exacted.

The first item involved is the appropriation and levy of the city of Chicago for the city relief fund, to reimburse loans made to that fund from…