Mount Carbon Coal & Railroad v. Blanchard

This was a bill in chancery for an injunction, in the Jackson circuit court, by the Mount Carbon Coal & Eailroad Co. and Andrew C. Bryden, against the school directors of school district No. 2, in township 9 south, range 2 west, in Jackson county, to which the county clerk, and sheriff, and collector of the county were made defendants, to restrain the collection of a tax assessed against the property of the complainants in that district, on the allegation that the tax was assessed without authority of law.

It appears, by the bill, that on the second of September, 1867, the defendants, acting…