Jones v. Foulger

The plaintiffs, Jones, Spiers, and Houtz, commenced this action in the District Court of Weber County to restrain the •defendant Foulger, as treasurer of Ogden City, and said city from collecting a certain special tax assessed against the property of the plaintiffs for the purpose of making a public improvement, to wit:' to open up a street, and to have said tax declared void. The defendants answered the complaint, and averred that the tax in question was legally and regularly assessed as required by law, and hence was a valid tax. The facts are simple and undisputed. We append the following…