People ex rel. Kinsella v. Opel

The Franklin Life Insurance Company is a corporation organized under the insurance laws of the State of Illinois, and its headquarters are in Capital township, Sangamon county. In the year 1902 the company made and delivered to the assessor of Capital township its schedule for the purposes of assessment for taxation, setting out that on April 1,1902, it bad personal property belonging to it of the value of §248,735. The property was assessed by the assessor at one-fifth of this amount and returned by him to the supervisor of assessments of Sangamon county. The compamy had securities,…