State v. Delinquent Taxpayers

Tbe Town of Newport lias appealed from a decree in tbe amount of $1,300 allowed tbe firm of Par-rott and Ray, practicing attorneys of Newport, for representing it in a suit to collect delinquent taxes.

By tbe assignments it is insisted that tbe appointment of Parrott and Ray as attorneys for tbe town was invalid, as adjudicated in another proceeding in wbicb said attorneys were petitioners, and, in any case, that suit to collect municipal taxes could only be filed in the suit to collect delinquent taxes due tbe state and county and, finally, that if tbe appointment of said attorneys be held…