People ex rel. Book v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Appellant’s objections to a certain portion of the town tax of the town of Bedford, in Wayne county, were overruled by the county court of that county, and it, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, has prosecuted this appeal from that judgment which followed the overruling of the objections.

There is no dispute as to the facts. The board of town auditors of the town of Bedford filed with the county clerk a levy of taxes to the amount of $600 for the town for the year 1924. A tax at the rate of twelve cents on the $100 assessed valuation of property in that town would have been sufficient to…