Chase v. Board of County Commissioners

There is no claim that the county, in i[s corporate capacity, has express power to make such a contract, or that the general assembly has conferred upon it any express power, or laid upon it any duty, in the matter of assessing property or collecting taxes. *271But plaintiffs assert that the hoard of commissioners, as the representative of the county, had the implied power to make this contract. The sections of the statute upon which they rely are sections 776, 774 and 791, 1 Mills’ Ann. Stats. By the first of these sections it is provided that the powers of a county as a body politic shall be'…