Pratt v. Dudley
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Chancery Court. Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor. statement by the court. These are suits brought by the Board of Eevee and Drainage Commissioners and Inspectors of Clay and Greene Counties, against the treasurer and sheriff, respectively, of Clay County, for the purpose of recovering moneys received by these officers from the taxes levied and paid in that district.
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Appeal from Clay Chancery Court. Edward D. Robertson, Chancellor. statement by the court. These are suits brought by the Board of Eevee and Drainage Commissioners and Inspectors of Clay and Greene Counties, against the treasurer and sheriff, respectively, of Clay County, for the purpose of recovering moneys received by these officers from the taxes levied and paid in that district. The complaint in the case against Dudley alleges that the plaintiffs compose the Board of Commissioners and Inspectors of the Clay and Greene Counties Levee and Drainage District, created under the act of February…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts.) An examination of the acts convinces us that the purpose of the Legislature in each, so far as the levee district is concerned, is the same. The last act (1901), while “repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with it,” does not repeal those that are not in conflict. The first act (1887) (and the amendatory act of 1893), establishing the levee district, and creating a Board of Commissioners and Inspectors, to be appointed by the county court, and defining the powers and duties of such board, is not in conflict with the act of 1901, so far as the…
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