Mayor of Annapolis v. Harwood
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity. The bill in this case was filed on the 17th of March, 1869, by the appellees against the appellants and one Edward Powers, who was employed by them as a tax collector in the city of Annapolis, to restrain said Powers from selling the property of the appellees for payment of their proportion of a special tax for paving a street in said city. The injunction was issued as prayed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity. The bill in this case was filed on the 17th of March, 1869, by the appellees against the appellants and one Edward Powers, who was employed by them as a tax collector in the city of Annapolis, to restrain said Powers from selling the property of the appellees for payment of their proportion of a special tax for paving a street in said city. The injunction was issued as prayed. Afterwards the appellants answered and in their answer moved for a dissolution of the injunction. The defendant Powers failed to answer. The .cause…
1Opinion of the CourtMaulsby, J.
In this ease an injunction was obtained by the appellees to restrain the appellants from selling, through their collector, the property of the appellees for payment of a proportion of “ special tax,” for paving two hundred and forty-live feet of North-East street, in the city of Annapolis. The power is claimed by the appellants under the Act of 1867, ch. 240. That Act, so far as pertains to this case, in the printed volume of Laws, is in the following words : “ to impose and appropriate fines', penalties and forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws and ordinances, and to levy and collect…
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