Hallenbeck v. Hahn
Nebraska Supreme Court
Petition in error to the Douglas District Court. This was a petition filed by the owner of personal and real estate to restrain the sale of the realty for taxes levied thereon; which sale the defendant, as the county treasurer, had advertised, without attempt to distrain upon the plaintiff’s personalty.
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Petition in error to the Douglas District Court. This was a petition filed by the owner of personal and real estate to restrain the sale of the realty for taxes levied thereon; which sale the defendant, as the county treasurer, had advertised, without attempt to distrain upon the plaintiff’s personalty. One and the chief ground alleged for complaint was, that a large portion of the taxes was to be applied to pay the interest upon a large amount of bonds issued by the county to the Omaha and North-western and the Omaha and Southwestern Railroad Companies to aid them in building their several…
1Opinion of the CourtCeounse, J.
The chief ground relied on, and perhaps the real inducement leading the plaintiff to apply to the Court below for an injunction to restrain the defendant, as treasurer of Douglas County, from enforcing the collection of taxes assessed against the plaintiff by a sale of his real estate, is, that, to the extent of four mills on the dollar, the tax is to apply in liquidation of the three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of bonds voted by said county in aid of the construction of the Omaha and Northwestern and the Omaha and South-western Railroads. It is averred in the petition, that said levy…
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