State ex rel. Gaines v. Whitworth
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court oi Tavid-■son county. Frank T. Eeid, J. Judges Coopee and Turney being incompetent, •Special Judges T. M. Jones and John Y. Wright were commissioned and were of the court who heard ■this cause.
1Opinion of the Court
T. M. Jones, Special J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
State of Tennessee, on the relation of James R. Gaines, comptroller of the State, filed a petition in the circuit court of Davidson county, for a mandamus to compel the trustee of Davidson county to assess- and collect the taxes upon certain town lots and the improvements thereon, located in the city of Nashville, and known as the “ free territory,” and which the petition alleges “by mistake of law or facts, or perhaps by both, had not been taxed.”
It is insisted by -the counsel for the plaintiff in error, that the act of 1879, upon…
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