Loeb v. City of Jacksonville

J. B. Loeb, a citizen and tax payer of the City of Jacksonville, exhibited his bill in chancery against the City of Jacksonville, J. L. Hall, as Tax Assessor, Alexander Ray as Treasurer and Tax Collector and J. E. Pace as Auditor of the City to declare a certain item in the city budget for the year 1928 appearing under the title “Division No. 11” for advertising $89,980. to be illegal and that Section 8 of Ordinance number T-43 under which a tax of eight tenths (.8) of one mill was levied upon the property in said City for such purpose is void. It is alleged that the item under Division No.…