People ex rel. Shirk v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This is a tax case. Appellant filed its objections in the county court of Massac county to a judgment for delinquent county tax against its property for the year 1923 in the amount of $2037.71. The ground of the objection was that the board of county commissioners of Massac county, at its September, 1923, meeting, failed to comply with the provisions of section 45 of chapter 34 of the Revised Statutes, requiring “the vote on all propositions to appropriate money from the county treasury shall be taken by ayes and nays and entered on the record of the meeting;” that the appropriation and levy…