The People v. Calumet Steel Co.

An action of debt, in the name of the People, was brought in the circuit court of Cook county against the Calumet Steel Company, a corporation, to recover $4709, the general taxes levied and extended upon an assessment of its personal property in the town of Bloom, in Cook county, for the year 1930. The defendant interposed the plea of nil debet. Upon a trial by the court without a jury, judgment was rendered for the amount of the taxes. The defendant prosecuted an appeal to this court, and the judgment was reversed and the cause remanded. (People v. Calumet Steel Co. 351 Ill. 451.) The cause…