Adams v. Beman
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Shawnee District Court. Injunction, brought by Daniel M. Adams, C. W Jewell, Julius T. Clark, and F. W. Giles, to enjoin Bema/n as county treasurer, and Thomas as sheriff, from collecting certain taxes alleged to be illegal.
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Error from Shawnee District Court. Injunction, brought by Daniel M. Adams, C. W Jewell, Julius T. Clark, and F. W. Giles, to enjoin Bema/n as county treasurer, and Thomas as sheriff, from collecting certain taxes alleged to be illegal. The petition stated that the plaintiffs were severally the owners of certain personal property subject to taxation in the city of Topeka for the year 1870, as follows: “The said Daniel M. Adams owned and possessed as aforesaid, besides other property, 390 shares in the Kansas Valley National Bank of Topeka, worth $39,000; the said C. W. Jewell so owned and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was an action brought for the purpose of restraining by injunction the collection of certain taxes claimed to be illegal and void. The questions of law involved in this case were raised in the court below on petition and demurrer. The plaintiffs filed their petition; the defendants demurred thereto, on the ground that the petition did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action; the court sustained the demurrer; and the plaintiffs now bring their action to this court. The plaintiffs alleged in their petition that the…
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