People v. Shirk

This is a writ of error sued out of this court by E. W. Shirk for the purpose of reviewing a judgment of the municipal court of Chicago against him for $225.60, recovered by the People of the State of Illinois in an action for delinquent personal property tax for the year 1908. The assessment upon which the judgment is based was an original board of review assessment made by that board in a lump sum, without designating the particular class or classes of property assessed. The errors assigned call in question the validity of the assessment as well as the validity of the statute under which…