People ex rel. Lee v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

At the June term, 1907, of the Kankakee county court .judgment was rendered against appellant for certain taxes. As to so much of the judgment as referred to the twenty . cents allowed for road and bridge taxes of the town of St. Anne over and above the sixty cents allowed under section 13 of the Road and Bridge act, amounting to $118.40, besides penalties and costs, appellant excepted and prayed an appeal to this court.

Section 14 of the Road and Bridge act (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, p. 1724,) provides that “if, in the opinion of the commissioners, a greater levy is needed” than is provided for…