Brownlee v. Board of Commissioners

Best, C.

The appellant, on behalf of himself and more than one hundred other persons, all taxpayers of Grant county, brought an action against the commissioners of the county to recover certain taxes alleged to have been illegally ■collected from them by the treasurer of said county, under an assessment made by him in 1878, for previous years. Such proceedings were had as resulted in a judgment awarding •one hundred of such persons the various sums paid by them .respectively under such assessment. The judgment, as entered, did not embrace the appellant' and about a dozen other persons named in…