People Ex Rel. Harding v. Sheridan-Brompton & Annex Building Corp.

Upon application by the county collector of Cook county to the county court of that county for judgment and order of sale against real estate on which the general taxes for the year 1926 were delinquent, the Sheridan-Brompton and Annex Building Corporation, owner of an improved parcel of real estate, objected that an increase in the valuation of its building, made in that year, was void. The objection was overruled, judgment and order of sale followed, and the objector prosecutes this appeal.

On the first day of April, 1923, appellant’s land was vacant and the board of assessors fixed its…