Marion County v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 73 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAR PROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The Legislature may validate retrospectively the proceedings which it might have authorized in advance. (Cooley on Taxation, pages 306, 307, 311, 312; Hewitt’s Appeal, 88 Pa. St., 55; Desty .on Taxation, vol. 2, page 218; Mattingly v. District of Columbia, 97 U. S., 687; Cooley’s Const. Limit., 371; Spencer v. Merchant, 8 Sup.
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Case 73 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAR PROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The Legislature may validate retrospectively the proceedings which it might have authorized in advance. (Cooley on Taxation, pages 306, 307, 311, 312; Hewitt’s Appeal, 88 Pa. St., 55; Desty .on Taxation, vol. 2, page 218; Mattingly v. District of Columbia, 97 U. S., 687; Cooley’s Const. Limit., 371; Spencer v. Merchant, 8 Sup. Court Reporter, 921; Read v. City of Plattsmouth, 107 U. S., 208; Thornton, &c., v. McGrath, &c., 1 Duv., 354; H. & N. R. Co. v. Dickerson, 17 B. M., 176; Boardmen v. Beckwith, 18 Iowa, 292; Bartriff v.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Holt
The Marion County Court, for the year 1886, levied for county purposes not only a head tax, but twenty cents for turnpike roads and thirty cents for general purposes upon each one hundred dollars of taxable property in the county. In 1887 it levied the same head tax, and also ten cents jail tax, twenty cents turnpike tax, and fifteen cents for county indebtedness upon each one hundred dollars of taxable property. The appellees paid the turnpike tax of 1886, but resist the payment of the thirty cent tax of that year for general county purposes.
The tax of 1887, to pay for the building of the…
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