People ex rel. Owen v. Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the county court of Iroquois county sustaining objections to a part of a tax levied in Sheldon township, in said county, under the provisions of “An act to authorize the construction and maintenance of gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads,” commonly called the Hard Roads act. (Hurd’s Stat. 1909, P. I955-)

It appears from the record that at the annual town meeting in Sheldon township in the year 1909 a vote was taken and was carried upon the proposition to levy a tax of one dollar on the $100 assessed valuation in said town, for a period of five years,…