Webster v. County Commissioners of Baltimore

The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellants, as tax-payers of Baltimore County, who sue as well for themselves, as in behalf of all other tax-payers *398of the County, and alleges that the appellees, on the first day of May 1878, levied a tax for the year 1878, on the assessable property of Baltimore County amounting to $419,921.47, which was an assessment of 72 cents on every hundred dollars worth of assessable property in said County.

The bill alleges that in estimating the amount of money necessary to meet the current expenses for the year 1878, the appellees included certain…