Legal Opinion
Prescott v. City of Memphis
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 5, 1926PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cook
The bill was filed to recover taxes assessed and collected by the city for the years 1920,1921,1922, and 1923. It is charged in the hill that:
“The city of Memphis, a municipal corporation, has power to levy and assess taxes upon persons and property within its corporate limits, and to collect the same.
“During the year 1920, and since that time, the defendant has assessed, levied, and collected taxes upon persons and property within the territory assumed by defendant to have been brought within its corporate limits under chapter 790 of the Private Acts of Tennessee, supposed to have been…
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