Wadley Southern Railway Co. v. Wright

On January 20, 1922, the comptroller-general of Georgia issued a tax fi. fa. against the Wadley Southern Railway Company, which was levied on an engine of the company. An affidavit of illegality was filed by the defendant, attacking certain items named in the order levying the tax. An examination of the record discloses the fact that the ordinary of Treutlen county, sitting for county purposes, on August 22, 1921, passed an order as follows: “It is ordered that an ad valorem tax levy of twenty-five mills, or twenty-five dollars on the thousand dollars assessed tax values for said county, be…