Thatcher v. County of Adams

Plaintiffs filed this petition in the district court, alleging, in substance, that the county board, on the 12th day of June, 1885, ordered a tax of twenty-one mills to be levied upon their separate property situated in sections 24, 25, and 36, in town 7, range 10, in Adams county; that the indebtedness for the payment of which the levy was made was a debt of school district No. 13 of said county, but that the said three sections were never within said district, *486were in no way liable for its debts, and that the county board had no authority to levy such tax upon the property described. An…