McBean v. Sears

In this action the plaintiff seeks to restrain the defendant from collecting $360.00 tax and $70.00 penalty for what is known as the Dow tax, assessed against him and placed on the tax duplicate by the auditor as a lien on plaintiff’s property in Cadiz, Ohio, in February, 1900, where plaintiff is said to have carried on the business of “trafficking in intoxicating liquors” from May, 1899, to May, 1900.

The plaintiff is a regular registered physician and conducts a drugstore in the village of Cadiz. The county auditor upon satisfactory information, and believing that the plaintiff was engaged…