People ex rel. Graff v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

This is an appeal by the collector of taxes for Morgan county from a judgment of the county court refusing judgment for certain taxes assessed against the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company. In obedience to a peremptory mandamus the county clerk extended the taxes under the law as it existed prior to July 1, 1909. The mandamus was awarded upon the theory that the amendatory act of 1909 was unconstitutional.

The most important question in this case, and the one that is conclusive of all matters involved except one in relation to an item of road tax in road district No. xo, is as to the effect…