Johnson v. Commonwealth

Madison C. Johnson having failed — on application by commissioner — to “ fix, on oath,” a sum sufficient to cover what he was then worth, independently of such property as was subject to be taxed prior to 1837, and such as was exempted by the statute of that year, entitled “an act to equalize taxation, (Session Acts of 1737, page 313,) he was summoned by the County Court of *339Fayette, to shew cause why he should not be “fined and treble taxed.”

Questions in this court. The act of 1837, ‘to equalize taxation/was in no part repealed by the act of 1838, which repeals the preexisting laws requiring…