People v. Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad

By tbe Court,

Green, J.

This is an action of debt brought by the plaintiffs to recover of the defendants a. portion of the specific tax alleged tO' be due from them to the plaintiffs, and unpaid, for the year 1855 ; amounting, as is claimed, to.the sum of §3,706.76;: the amount of tax assessed for that year by the Auditor General being §38,442, and the amount paid by the defendants being §34,735.24.

The above balance remaining unpaid, was assessed upon three items, which are stated in the supplemental report of the Company to the Auditor General, made for the purpose of taxation, in March, 1856,…