Commissioners Court v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Prohibition.. Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Petition by the State of Alabama, on the relation of the Fairford Lumber Company, a corporation, and others, against the Court of County - Commissioners of Washington County and the individual members thereof, to restrain the said court of county commissioners from levying and collecting a certain'tax. From an order granting the petition, respondents appeal.
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Prohibition.. Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. Samuel B. Browne. Petition by the State of Alabama, on the relation of the Fairford Lumber Company, a corporation, and others, against the Court of County - Commissioners of Washington County and the individual members thereof, to restrain the said court of county commissioners from levying and collecting a certain'tax. From an order granting the petition, respondents appeal. The petition is as follows-: “(1) That relator Fair-ford Lumber Company is a corporation, chartered under the general laws of the state of Alabama.,…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment and order of the circuit court, upon the petition of the appellees, granting a temporary writ of prohibition against the commissioners’ court of Washington county, restraining it from further proceeding’ in a certain cause pending before it, with the usual rule nisi returnable to the next term of the court. The proceeding as to which the writ was sought and. granted is one arising from an assessment of the corporate stock of the Fairford Lumber Company by the county tax assessor; the assessment being for escaped taxes for the years 1906-1910, inclusive, and…
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