People Ex Rel. Batman v. Illinois Central Railroad

This is an appeal from the judgment of the county court of Jasper county overruling objections to taxes and entering judgment against the appellant for the penalties and costs.

The first item is a tax for the county blind relief fund. The appellant objected to this tax because there was included, in addition to the statutory limit for general county purposes, a tax of five-tenths of one mill by rate, only, instead of levying the exact amount. We have held in People v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Co. 270 Ill. 633, and in many other cases, that the county tax should be…