People ex rel. Burton v. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

Proceedings were taken in December, 1915, for the organization of the Arthur Township High School District No. 115 of the counties of Moultrie, Coles and Douglas under the unconstitutional Township High School act of 1911, and in July, 1916, the supposed board of education of the putative district filed with the county clerk of Moultrie county a certificate of the levy of a special tax, by virtue of which the county clerk extended a tax of $235.74 against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company. At the June term, 1917, of the county court the collector of Moultrie…