Meyers v. Shields
District Court, N.D. Ohio
This is a bill in equity, filed by the complainants, who are nonresidents of Ohio, to enjoin the defendant, who is the treasurer of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, from attempting to enforce the collection'of $184,108.50, which sum, it, is averred, stands illegally assessed against said complainants on account of taxes alleged to have been unlawfully and fraudulently withheld from the tax duplicate of said county by the deceased for the years 1887, 1888, 1889,1890, 189.1, and 1892.…
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This is a bill in equity, filed by the complainants, who are nonresidents of Ohio, to enjoin the defendant, who is the treasurer of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, from attempting to enforce the collection'of $184,108.50, which sum, it, is averred, stands illegally assessed against said complainants on account of taxes alleged to have been unlawfully and fraudulently withheld from the tax duplicate of said county by the deceased for the years 1887, 1888, 1889,1890, 189.1, and 1892. The allegations of the bill are that the complainants are the duly-appointed executors of John L. Woods, who died on…
1Opinion of the CourtRicks, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The first contention necessary to consider is the objection by the defendant that this court, sitting as a court of equity, cannot acquire jurisdiction of this case because the plaintiffs have a complete and adequate remedy at law. Counsel have insisted upon this objection very strenuously, and urged that the remedy in equity afforded by the laws of the, state of Ohio cannot be applied in this court, but ihat the limitation put upon the equitable jurisdiction of the federal courts by section 723 of the Revised Statutes of the United States must be considered an…
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