State ex rel. County Collector v. Oliver

— This is an action to collect taxes alleged to have been levied and assessed by the county court of New Madrid county, for the purpose of paying bonds issued and sold to obtain funds for the construction of a drainage ditch, under article IV, chapter 122, Revised Statutes 1899, now, as amended, article IV, chapter 4 (section 5578-5635), Revised Statutes 1909. The defendant answered and the issues thus made call for a construction of the laws which, if they are revenue laws, deprives us of jurisdiction by reason of section 12, article VT, of the Constitution of this State. Under this act the…