Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Wright
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Before Judge Lumpkin. Bulton superior court. March, term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
These two actions were, by consent, consolidated and tried together as one case by the presiding judge without a jury. They were brought to recover amounts of money paid at different times by the plaintiff in error, for the purpose of preventing a sale of its goods under executions which had been issued for certain taxes alleged to be due the State of Georgia. The payments were made under protest, and the sewing-machine company insists that the law under which these taxes were levied is unconstitutional, (1) because in conflict with par. 1 of sec. 2 of art. 7 of the…
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