Southern Railroad v. Hamblen County

This is a petition for certiorari and supersedeas, to stay the execution of a distress warrant issued by the clerk of the county court of Hamblen county, and levied upon the property of petitioner, to collect a special tax levied by that county in 1904, upon the ground that the tax levy is invalid for failure to show the purpose of the tax and for want of authority in the county to make the levy.

The chairman of the county court of Hamblen county, *528made arid spread upon the minutes of the January term, 1904, of that court, a report containing this statement:

“There is a floating debt on the…