ST. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Pritchard

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit .court of Marion County taxing as cost of suit three per centum of the amount of a judgment rendered against appellant by the court on a verdict of a jury. Authority to tax said amount as cost is asserted under an act of the General Assembly approved May 13, 1909, applicable only to Marion, Boone and Baxter counties. The statute reads as follows: „

“In addition to the revenue arising from ferry, dramshops and drinking saloon license, which is appropriated for county purposes, there shall be levied and collected, a county tax on the following…