People ex rel. Mercer v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Pursuant to the provisions of a statute authorizing a system of State aid roads in the several counties of the State, Bureau county designated certain roads to form its part of said system. In order to build, improve and maintain its system of State aid roads its board of supervisors decided that it was necessary to get authority from the voters to levy an excess tax of $221,500 a year for a period of four years, which amounted to a tax of sixty cents on each $100 valuation of all the property in said county. Resolutions were duly passed submitting to the people the question of levying the…