Wright v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Illegality of execution) Before Judge Pendleton. Eulton superior court. March 20, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
The ordinary of Stephens county levied a tax on all the taxable property of the county for the year 1909, in which the various purposes for which the tax was levied were enumerated and the amount per $100 for each purpose was set forth. Hnder this levy, something over $8,000 was claimed against the Southern Eailway Company, of which amount, on or about December 20, 1909, it paid all except $3,102.40, the payment of which it resisted as being illegally levied, it representing an amount levied for “general county purposes,” in-excess of the amount which the county, in the absence of a…
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