People Ex Rel. Nash v. Norton

We are asked by this appeal to determine whether an assessment of farm land was in such excess of its true value as to be a fraud upon the appellant,. Thomas J. Norton. The land is located in Cook county about thirty miles from Chicago, and the appeal comes from a judgment of the county court of Cook county which overruled appellant’s objections and ordered the land sold for the 1931 delinquent general taxes.

At the hearing before the county court appellant introduced evidence by three witnesses tending to show that the fair cash value of the seventy-one acres in question was not over $100 an…