Clay County v. McAleer
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT ’OF IOWA. The facts which make the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This record shows that Michael McAleer recovered a judgment on the 21st of October, 1864, in' the Circuit Court of the United States for the' District of Iowa, against Clay County, for $9,172.50. Upon this judgment sundry payments have been made, but there still remains due more than $5000. When the debt in judgment was contracted, the power of the county to levy a tax for ordinary county revenue was limited to four mills annually on the dollar of the assessed value of taxable property; afterwards this was increased to six mills, which is the authorized rate now. On the 2d • of May, 1881. the…
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