Adair v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Georgia
•Constitutional law. f Words and phrases. Costs. Officers Courts. Taxes. Construction. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. September term, 1889. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
It appears from the record in this case that W. I). Ellis and H. C. Glenn, ex-solicitors of the city court of Atlanta, claim that the county of Fulton is indebted to them, as such solicitors, certain amounts on account of insolvent costs not collected by them from the fines and forfeitures fund. The legislature passed an act, approved August 3d, 1889, requiring the commissioners of roads and revenues of Fulton county to levy a tax upon the property of the people of that county, to pay a certain proportion of the amount claimed by Ellis and Glenn to be due them by the county.…
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