City Council v. Pearce
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Tax. Before Judge Roney. Richmond County. At Chambers, February 26, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The property of Mrs. Pearce, certain real estate, was assessed for taxation in the city of Augusta for the year 1886, at a valuation of $6,000. She filed a written protest against that valuation, and lodged it with the local authorities in the manner prescribed by the city ordinance. Whether any action was ever taken upon it, or what became of it, does not appear. She had purchased her property in the year 1884, in the month of August, for $5,000; and her contention was that that sum was its true value for taxation. The city, however, taxed it on the basis of $6,000…
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