McEntire v. Williamson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Pratt district court; G. W. McKay, judge. STATEMENT. This was a suit in injunction brought by plaintiff in error, as receiver of the Wichita & Western Railway Company, against H. R. Williamson, as sheriff, W. C. Gould, as treasurer, and H. C. Briggs, as county clerk, of Pratt county, Jerome Russell, as township trustee of Saratoga township in said county, William Cooper, J. W. Parker, and J. B. Gibbens, as county commissioners of said county, the Investment…
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Error from Pratt district court; G. W. McKay, judge. STATEMENT. This was a suit in injunction brought by plaintiff in error, as receiver of the Wichita & Western Railway Company, against H. R. Williamson, as sheriff, W. C. Gould, as treasurer, and H. C. Briggs, as county clerk, of Pratt county, Jerome Russell, as township trustee of Saratoga township in said county, William Cooper, J. W. Parker, and J. B. Gibbens, as county commissioners of said county, the Investment Guarantee Trust Company, Limited (hereinafter called the trust company), S. G. Saunders, as mayor of the city of Pratt, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Pollock, J.:
*2801. Constitutionality of doimguenttax act. *279The first contention made by counsel for plaintiff in error is that the statute authorizing a levy of thirty-five hundredths of a mill per dollar on the assessed valuation of the property of the consolidated company within the county of Pratt, to pay *280delinquent state taxes, is unequal taxa- ,. , ,, „ ,, , , tion, and, therefore, unconstitutional and void. This precise question was before this court in Railway Co. v. Clark, 60 Kan. 831, 58 Pac. 561, and there decided adversely to the contention now…
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