The People v. Commonwealth Edison Co.

prepared the opinion of the court:

The People recovered a judgment for $1,773,708.59 against the defendant (appellant here) in the county court of Cook county in an action in debt to recover an alleged unpaid balance of its personal property tax for the year I93i-

Many errors are assigned and argued. Three major ones may be summarized as follows: (1) That the taxing authorities failed to classify and list defendant’s personal property by items, class and kind, but improperly allocated all of its property to column 40 of the assessor’s report; (2) the county court erroneously included in such…