People ex rel. Price v. Wisconsin Central Railroad

At the June term, 1905, the county court of Lake county refused the application of the county collector of said county for a judgment against the property of appellee for a county tax levied on said property, and from that judgment this appeal was prosecuted.

At the September session, 1904, the county board attempted to levy a county tax of seventy-five cents on each $100 of taxable property according to its assessed valuation, and did not specify the particular purposes for which the tax was levied. Such a levy was not authorized by the statute, and the tax was vitiated by the failure to…