Legal Opinion

Butts v. Little

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 15, 1881PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Constitutional Law. Debtor and Creditor. County Matters. Before Judge POTTLE. Hancock County. At Chambers. December 12 th, 1881. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Speer, Justice.

Plaintiffs in error filed their bill for injunction, relief, etc , in Hancock superior court, against the defendants, alleging that they were tax payers in and of said county, that at the April term, 1880, of said superior court, the grand jury thereof recommended a levy of a tax of one-fifth of one per cent be levied on the taxable property of said county for the years 1880 and 1881, for the purpose of erecting a court-house for said county, not to exceed in value $10,000.00, and also by their action appointed the defendants in error to act in the premises as a committee to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hudson v. Mayor of MariettaSupreme Court of Georgia · 1879

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. City Council v. Dawson Waterworks Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  2. Manly Building Co. v. NewtonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  3. Eberstein v. WilletsIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
  4. Lewis v. LofleySupreme Court of Georgia · 1894
  5. Dyer v. ErwinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899

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