Rosewell v. United States Steel Corp.

JUSTICE "WARD

delivered the opinion of the court:

United States Steel Corporation (hereafter U.S. Steel or the objector), filed specific objections, pursuant to sections 194 and 235 of the Revenue Act of 1939 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 120, pars. 675 and 716), to the Cook County collector’s application for judgment and sale pertaining to real estate taxes on the objector’s South Works plant in Chicago for the years 1975 through 1979. The taxes for each year were paid in full and under protest. U.S. Steel claimed that the assessor had valued the South Works plant in excess of its full, fair…