Armstrong v. County-Court of Taylor County
West Virginia Supreme Court
A writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Taylor county, rendered on the 14th day of May, 1877, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Adol- . phus Armstrong and others were plaintiffs and The county-court of Taylor county was defendant, granted on the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Charles S. Lewis, late judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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A writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Taylor county, rendered on the 14th day of May, 1877, in an action in said court then pending, wherein Adol- . phus Armstrong and others were plaintiffs and The county-court of Taylor county was defendant, granted on the petition of said plaintiffs. Hon. Charles S. Lewis, late judge of the second judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion OÍ the Court. cited the following authorities: Cooley on Taxation, 1-4; 8 How. 82; Const. W. Va. 1863, Art. VIII; Id. Art. IV, §§35,…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, Judge
A. Armstrong and sixty other citizens, inhabitants of and taxpayers in the county of Taylor, in behalf of themselves and all other citizens, inhabitants and tax-payers of said county, except the members of the county-court of said county, presented a petition to the judge of the circuit court of Taylor county, praying a writ of prohibition against the county-court of said county. Th.e petition substantially alleges that the property of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, including the Park-ersburg Branch road, known as the North West Virginia Railroad, is assessed with county-taxes, and…
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