Vaughan v. Bowie
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Jefferson Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. Read Fletcher, Special Judge.. Called the attention of the court to act of 23d July, 1868, sections 18, 20, 21, 32. No estimate by trustee was made. The law is mandatory. Ciarle v. Crane, 5 Mich., 154. Shawner v. Carter, 2 Han., 115; Cooley’s Const. Lim., 75. County Court could not exceed a levy of five mills.
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APPEAL from Jefferson Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. Read Fletcher, Special Judge.. Called the attention of the court to act of 23d July, 1868, sections 18, 20, 21, 32. No estimate by trustee was made. The law is mandatory. Ciarle v. Crane, 5 Mich., 154. Shawner v. Carter, 2 Han., 115; Cooley’s Const. Lim., 75. County Court could not exceed a levy of five mills. Act of 25th March, 1871. The State therefore, submitting the questions to this court,, makes no legal objection to affirmance of th& decree. \ Cited and noticed on section 146, Rev. act of ’71, and sections 18, 22, 32, 35, 37, 38, 40…
1Opinion of the Court
S. W. Williams, Sp. J.:
The appellees filed their complaint in chancery on the 18th of April, 1873, in the Jefferson Circuit Court, in which, in behalf of themselves and others, tax payers of school district No. 22, in said county, they allege that an illegal school tax of fifteen mills per cent had been levied by the County Court on the tax payers of said district. Much was said in the bill which applied to and tended to show the illegality of the entire tax, on the ground that the five mills per cent allowed by law was not legally voted by the inhabitants of the district, and the answer…
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