People ex rel. Ruchty v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

The Chicago and North Western Railway Company, appellant, filed timely objections to certain taxes extended against its property for the educational and building funds of school district No. 36. The county court of Du Page County overruled the objections and entered judgment in favor of the county collector. The appeal is direct to this court.

Two questions are here involved: one, whether a school district whose maximum expendable educational rate is 47.2 cents may, under the Hodge amendment, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 120, par. 643a(3),) accelerate its rate to a maximum of $1.125 without…