People ex rel. Lusk v. Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago Railway Co.

The appellant’s objections to judgment against its property for taxes were overruled, and it appealed. The taxes involved are a town tax, the road and bridge taxes of several towns, the city tax of Eldorado and part of the village tax of Ledford.

The objection to the town tax is, that it was levied for town purposes without defining the particular purpose. The town clerk’s certificate referred to the record entries of moneys voted to be raised at the town meeting and the certificate of the board of town auditors, and was in substantially the form adjudged sufficient in People v. Chicago and…