People ex rel. Murray v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

The county clerk of St. Clair county extended a tax rate of fifty-three cents on the $100 of the assessed valuation for county purposes. He also extended a rate of $2.59 as a school tax for school district No. 189, in said county, for both educational and building purposes. The certificate of levy for the school district calls for $500,000 for educational and $211,000 for building purposes. A rate of $1.82 on the $100 produces the amount required to be levied for educational purposes. The amount levied for building purposes requires a rate of seventy-seven cents. Appellant, the Cleveland,…