Jones v. the City of Arcadia

(dissenting). — The final decree assigned as error here decreed the payment by the appellant, Mourning Jones, of the sum of $5,309.26, as the amount due for taxes and attorney’s fees due to the City of Arcadia as delinquent taxes for the years 1926 to 1936, inclusive, on the South 20 feet of Lot 3 and Lots 4 and 5 and Lots 6 to 13 of Block 1 of the original survey of the City of Arcadia. After suit was filed, the city council reduced the valuation of the assessments on the property described in the final decree, with other property, and waived the payment of interest. While the two tax…