Board of Commissioners of Montgomery Co. v. Elston

This was a complaint hy the appellee against the board of commissioners and treasurer of Montgomery county, to restrain a sale of certain personal property, levied upon by the said treasurer by virtue of a warrant to collect the sum of four hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-nine cents, being the amount of tax and penalty on twenty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars in the hands of the appellee on the first day of January, 1868.

One-half of this sum was in treasury notes of the United States, known as “greenbacks;” the remaining portion was in the notes of the national…