Hubbard v. City of Hickman
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 41 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM FULTON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Act of March 10, 1854, to reduce into one the various acts concerning Town of Hickman, and by-laws of Hickman. 14 B. Mon., 648; Johnson vs. City of Lexington. 2 Met., 226; City of Covington vs. Elliston. Revised Statutes, section 12, Revenue and Taxation, 2 Stanton, 252. 2 Met., 228; City of Covington vs. Powell, SfC.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the otinion or the court:
The appellant brought this action against the appellee for reclamation of one thousand five hundred dollars which, through alleged mistake of law, he had, for ten consecutive years, paid, at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars a year, under an assessment by the municipality of his choscs in action for local taxation.
The answer insists that the tax was legal — avers that the appellant, all the time, was a municipal officer, approved and aided in the enforcement of the like taxation on others, and once, as councilman, voted to impose it;…
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