Hope v. Dodson

City of Hope brought this suit in equity against J. IVf. Dodson, as tax collector of Hempstead County, Arkansas, to enjoin him from collecting taxes on certain real estate owned by the city of Hope, described in the complaint.

It was claimed that the property was exempt from taxation, and the court sustained the exemption as to all the property described in the complaint, except forty acres of land known as the fair-ground property, and block 22. As to this property it was decreed that the complaint should be dismissed for want of equity, and to reverse the decree in this respect the city of…