Christy v. Atchison
District Court, D. Colorado
In Equity. Suit by R. L. Christy, as County Treasurer of the County of Prowers, Colo., and the Board of County Commissioners, against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
On March 4th, 1908, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company (defendant here) instituted in the Circuit Court for this district an action at law against Prowers County to recover $16,686.61, which amount the railway company claimed to have been collected from it as in excess of the taxes justly due by it to said county for the year 1905. The complaint alleged that two of the plaintiff’s engines had been seized under distraint warrant on a claim that the plaintiff in that case owed in taxes $25,130.85, and that in order to obtain the release of said engines it was…
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