People ex rel. Reynolds v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

On the application of the county collector to the county court of LaSalle county for judgment and order of sale for taxes levied by the county board at its special meeting in 1921, the appellant, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, objected to five items of such taxes. The court sustained an objection to the court house and jail fund for installing new furniture and fund for dieting prisoners, stated in a single item of $11,000, and overruled the objections to the other items.

There was a levy of fifteen cents on each $100 assessed valuation of property for a county highway…