Bothwell v. Millikan

The principal question in this case is as to the authority of the treasurer to sell real estate upon an assessment made for building a gravel road.

The constitutionality of the statute authorizing the levying of taxes for constructing gravel roads has been so many times affirmed by this court, and by other courts, that the question may be considered as at rest. The authority to enact such statutes being assumed, the only question is as to their force and effect.

The statute providing for the assessment of taxes for the construction of gravel roads plainly contemplates that such taxes may be…