People Ex Rel. English v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

School District No. 181 in Knox county levied a tax of $11,000 for educational purposes in 1936. Defendant, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, paid its share of this tax under protest, and when application was made by the county collector for the sale of lands for the non-payment of taxes, filed objections to the levy. The county court of Knox county sustained the objections and ordered a refund of what it found to be excessive. The county collector has appealed directly to this court under section 75 of the Civil Practice act. Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap, no, par. 199.

The tax…