Salmon v. Board of Directors of Long Prairie Levee District
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lafayette Chancery Court; J. M. Barker, Chancellor; 1. Property cannot be confiscated by an act of the Legislature through the agency of a special improvement or taxing district. 172 U. S. 269; 181 Id. 324,394; Gray, Limitation of Taxing Power and Public Indebtedness, p. 1017; Hamilton on Special Assessments, 58, 61, 182, 234-5-6-7-8-9, 464, 477; 96 Ga. 381; 23 S. E. Rep. 408; 42 Neb, 120; 60 N. W. 368; 61 O. St. 15; 55 N. E. 164; 63 N. J. L., 202; 42 Atl. 733;…
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Appeal from Lafayette Chancery Court; J. M. Barker, Chancellor; 1. Property cannot be confiscated by an act of the Legislature through the agency of a special improvement or taxing district. 172 U. S. 269; 181 Id. 324,394; Gray, Limitation of Taxing Power and Public Indebtedness, p. 1017; Hamilton on Special Assessments, 58, 61, 182, 234-5-6-7-8-9, 464, 477; 96 Ga. 381; 23 S. E. Rep. 408; 42 Neb, 120; 60 N. W. 368; 61 O. St. 15; 55 N. E. 164; 63 N. J. L., 202; 42 Atl. 733; 42 L. R. A. 641; 53 Id. 421. 2. Assessments can only be laid upon lands peculiarly benefited because of such assessment,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Appellee, Board of Directors of Long Prairie Levee District, instituted actions against appellant, W. R. Salmon, and others to force payment of delinquent levee taxes — one for the assessments for. the years 1907 and 1908, and the other for the year 1909. Decrees were rendered in accordance with the prayer of each complaint, and Salmon only has appealed. Substantially the same questions are raised in each of the two cases, and they have been heard together as one case. The court overruled a demurrer to certain paragraphs of the complaint in the first case, and sustained demurrers to all the…
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