Spring v. Collector of Olney

This was a bill for an injunction to restrain the collector of the city of Olney from collecting the municipal tax of one per cent levied and assessed against the complainants for the year 1874, on the ground that such levy is without authority of law.

The court below, on motion, dissolved the preliminary injunction which had been granted, and dismissed the bill, and assessed defendant’s damages at $200, and complainants bring this appeal to reverse the decree.

The principal question presented is, whether the act of April 15,1873, “in regard to the assessment of property, and the levy and…