State v. Board of County Commissioners
Wyoming Supreme Court
On reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Riohakd H. Soott, Judge. This was an action brought by the State against the Board of the County Commissioners of the County of Laramie to recover certain State taxes alleged to be due the State from said county. The defendant demurred to the petition, which had set out in full all the facts out of which the liability of the county was claimed to have arisen.
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On reserved questions from the District Court, Laramie County, Hon. Riohakd H. Soott, Judge. This was an action brought by the State against the Board of the County Commissioners of the County of Laramie to recover certain State taxes alleged to be due the State from said county. The defendant demurred to the petition, which had set out in full all the facts out of which the liability of the county was claimed to have arisen. At the hearing upon the demurrer, the district court, deeming certain legal questions arising thereon to be difficult and important, ordered the cause to be reserved to…
1Opinion of the Court
Potter, Chief Justice.
This action was instituted on the part of the State to recover from the County of Laramie certain taxes claimed to be due on State levies for the years 1889, 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895.
To the answer of the defendant, a demurrer was filed, and upon the hearing thereof, certain questions deemed to be important and difficult were reserved by the district court for the decision of this court.
The first question is as follows:
*116“In an action brought by the State of Wyoming against any county in the State, seeking to recover taxes alleged to have been regularly levied by the…
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