City of Zanesville v. Richards
Ohio Supreme Court
This is an application on bebalf of the city of Zanesville, for a writ of peremptory mandamus, to compel the defendant, as auditor of Muskingum county, to enter upon the tax duplicate of the county, against all the lands within the corporate limits of said city, the per centage regularly levied for city purposes in the year 1855. The motion for the peremptory writ was filed in this court January 4th, 1856 ; and on the 9th day of the month an alternative writ of mandamus was…
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This is an application on bebalf of the city of Zanesville, for a writ of peremptory mandamus, to compel the defendant, as auditor of Muskingum county, to enter upon the tax duplicate of the county, against all the lands within the corporate limits of said city, the per centage regularly levied for city purposes in the year 1855. The motion for the peremptory writ was filed in this court January 4th, 1856 ; and on the 9th day of the month an alternative writ of mandamus was issued by order of the court, commanding the defendant to place said taxes on the duplicate for the year 1856, or show…
1Opinion of the CourtRanney, C. J.
The city of Zanesville was organized under the provisions of a special act of incorporation, passed March 19, 1850 ; 48 O. L. 473. By the 6th section of this act, the city council was authorized to levy and collect taxes, to provide for the debts and to defray the current expenses of the city, with a limitation upon this power, expressed in these words: “ But the said city council shall levy no tax upon any land or lands within the limits of said city, except for road purposes, unless the same is laid off into town lots, and recorded as such, agreeably to the laws of the State, or into'…
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