Dickson v. Rouse
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Hannibal Court of Common Fleas. — Horn John T. Redd, Judge. Tbe list of taxable property is sufficient. R. S. of Ill. 1874, p. 870, § 78. Tbe assessment baying been made, tbe judgment rendered and tbe warrant being in tbe hands of tbe collector,- it was bis duty to execute it. He could not constitute himself a court of correction. Tbe laws of Illinois provide a remedy for tbe assessed.
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Appeal from Hannibal Court of Common Fleas. — Horn John T. Redd, Judge. Tbe list of taxable property is sufficient. R. S. of Ill. 1874, p. 870, § 78. Tbe assessment baying been made, tbe judgment rendered and tbe warrant being in tbe hands of tbe collector,- it was bis duty to execute it. He could not constitute himself a court of correction. Tbe laws of Illinois provide a remedy for tbe assessed. Feisenthal v. Johnson, 104 Ill. 21. Tbe warrant was not defective because there was no descrijitive list in tbe tax-book of the personal property. Chinigny v. People, 78 HI. 574. Tbe warrant…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin, C.
This was a suit before a justice of the peace to recover the value of a three-horse breaking plow, a two-horse cultivator and a double-hinged harrow alleged to have been wrongfully taken by defendant. The suit was dismissed by the justice for want of jurisdiction. On appeal to the Hannibal court of common pleas the case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. The defendant admitted the taking and carrying away of the property. He then proved that he was the collector of Levee township, Pike county, Illinois, and that in his capacity as such he seized the property…
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