People Ex Rel. Roche v. Cairo & Thebes Railroad

This appeal is from a judgment of the county court of Alexander county overruling objections to a county tax and a road district tax.

The county board of Alexander county for the year 1924 levied a tax for general county purposes which required a rate of fifty cents on each $100 assessed valuation, and a tax for the payment of principal and interest on county road bonds which required a rate of thirty-four cents. Appellant paid that portion of the aggregate tax produced by a rate of seventy-five cents on each $100 assessed valuation and refused to pay the excess tax produced by the additional…