Wells v. McNeill
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Newton county. Hon. Samuel Whitman, Chancellor. McNeill and six hundred and ninety-nine others, tax payers of Newton county, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Wells, tax collector of the county, appellant was defendant there. The bill sought an injunction restraining the collection from complainants, and others similarly situated who would join in the suit, of a special courthouse tax.
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From the chancery court of Newton county. Hon. Samuel Whitman, Chancellor. McNeill and six hundred and ninety-nine others, tax payers of Newton county, appellees, were complainants in the court below; Wells, tax collector of the county, appellant was defendant there. The bill sought an injunction restraining the collection from complainants, and others similarly situated who would join in the suit, of a special courthouse tax. A preliminary injunction was granted; the chancery court refused to dissolve the same on motion of defendant, but granted an appeal to the supreme court from the decree…
1Opinion of the Court
Edward Mayes, Special Judge,*
delivered the opinion of the-court.
The bill in this cause shows that the board of supervisors had levied a tax of four and one-half mills for the purpose of erecting a new courthouse; that such levy, added to the other levies made, aggregated the full tax authorized by the act of 1908 (Laws 1908, p. 56, c. 72), being eighteen mills; that the board had advertised for proposals to build the new courthouse, on the. basis of a structure to cost not less than $30,000 nor more than $50,000 and were about to contract on that basis; that a proposal to issue bonds had been…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Monroe County v. StrongMississippi Supreme Court · 1900
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