Chambers County v. Lee County
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee. Tried before the Hon. Jas. E. Cobb. This action was brought bj the appellant against the appellee, each being a body corporate, to recover the sum of $8,007.83, alleged to be the defendant’s pro-rata share of the county debt of Chambers on the 5th December, 1866, when Lee county was created; together with interest thereon.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee. Tried before the Hon. Jas. E. Cobb. This action was brought bj the appellant against the appellee, each being a body corporate, to recover the sum of $8,007.83, alleged to be the defendant’s pro-rata share of the county debt of Chambers on the 5th December, 1866, when Lee county was created; together with interest thereon. The record does not show when the action-was commenced, the original áummons and complaint having been lost; but a new summons and complaint were substituted, by consent, on the 12th November, 1875. The defendant demurred to the…
1Opinion of the Court
MANNING, J. —
Lee county was created by an act of the general assembly, approved December 5th, 1866, of portions of the counties of Chambers, Tallapoosa, Macon and Russell; and the property embraced in the new county that was taken from each of the others was, by the 5th section of the act, made “ liable to taxation for the pro-rata proportion of any debts” then due from those counties, respectively, to be levied, collected, and paid by the proper authorities of the new county. This was in effect provided for by the act creating the county of Lee. By another act, passed at the same session of…
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