Weber v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.

In the latter part of the year 1870 the county clerk of St. Clair county extended on the tax book of that year, against the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of this State, on property owned by it, and described as “right of way, ” taxes, amounting in the aggregate to $3136.50, purporting to be arrearages or back taxes on such property for the years-1864 to 1868, both years inclusive, in favor of the town of Lebanon and certain school districts. On a bill filed for that purpose by the railway company, in the circuit court, the collection of the taxes…