People ex rel. Morey v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the County Court of Henderson county; the Hon. W. G. Church, Judge, presiding. This is an application in the county court of Henderson county for judgment and sale of the right of way of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, listed as the property of the Chicago, California and Santa Fe Railway Company, for non-payment of district taxes of road district No. 7, Henderson county, Illinois, and other lands.
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Appeal from the County Court of Henderson county; the Hon. W. G. Church, Judge, presiding. This is an application in the county court of Henderson county for judgment and sale of the right of way of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, listed as the property of the Chicago, California and Santa Fe Railway Company, for non-payment of district taxes of road district No. 7, Henderson county, Illinois, and other lands. Objections to entry of judgment and sale were filed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Pe Railway Company. These objections were sustained, and, after overruling a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
The only question involved in this case, as is conceded .by both sides, relates to the proper construction of sections 62 and 64 of the act, approved May 4, 1887, to provide for the organization of road districts, etc., in counties not under township organization. The highway commissioners of road district No. 7 made a levy of fifty cents on each §100.00 of the property of the road district for “road and bridge purposes and for the payment of any outstanding orders drawn on them by their treasurer;” and also the rate of forty cents on each $100.00 “to liquidate road and ditch damages.” The…
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