People Ex Rel. Wangelin v. St. Louis Bridge Co.

The county collector of St. Clair county applied for judgment against the property of the appellant in such county for the delinquent taxes assessed against its property for the year 1932. The assessed value of its property was $3,150,000. It paid a tax computed on an assessed valuation of $2,000,000 and filed objections to the remainder of the tax. By its first and seventh objections it alleged that it had paid all the taxes for which it was legally liable; that the assessment against its property was made by the taxing authorities arbitrarily, erroneously, unreasonably and fraudulently;…