The People v. Evanston Ry. Co.

This is an action in debt by the People of the State of Illinois against the Evanston Railway Company for the recovery of delinquent personal property taxes for the year 1923, amounting to $1953.22. The declaration was filed to the December term, 1925, of the circuit court of Cook county. The railway company filed the plea of nil debet and a further plea of payment, in which latter plea it is averred that the defendant paid to C. A. Rogers, Jr., collector of the town of and the city of Evanston, Cook county, Illinois, the full amount of all the annual State, county, city, school, drainage,…