PEOPLE EX REL. PENROD v. C. & N.W. RY. CO.

No. 35189.

17 Ill.2d 263 (1959)

161 N.E.2d 120

THE PEOPLE ex rel. May Penrod, County Collector, Appellee, v. CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LOWELL B. SMITH, of Sycamore, and NELSON TROTTMAN, and GEORGE M. HOLLANDER, both of Chicago, (CARL McGOWAN, of counsel,) for appellant.

CARL A. SWANSON, JR., of Sycamore, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE DAILY delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellant, the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, having previously paid its 1955 taxes in full and under protest, filed an objection in the county court of De Kalb County to a portion of the building purposes tax of Community Unit School District No. 428 of De Kalb County. The court overruled the objection and, since the revenue...

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