Darby v. City of Vidalia

This suit was to enjoin the City of Vidalia from

collecting from the plaintiff taxes on property in the city, upon the ground that he should be credited with taxes paid on another tract of property lying without the limits of the city (as described in the petition) for a period of eighteen years, aggregating a large sum of money, the amount of which he could not ascertain, for the reason that he did not have access to the books of said city, when those taxes were paid under the belief that said property was within the limits of Vidalia; that upon the survey of said city it was ascertained that…