People ex rel. Schilt v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Richland county overruling objections of appellant to certain taxes and rendering judgment and order of sale against the property of appellant against which the tax was extended.

Prior to July 1, 1913, Olney and Preston townships, in Richland county, were, under the Road and Bridge act then in force, under the labor system. Under that act the commissioners of highways assessed a tax under section 83 of the Road and Bridge law qf 1883, which was payable in labor at the option of the property owner. The tax assessed in Olney township'…