Morris v. Commissioners of Morris Co.
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Morris District Court. Injunction, brought by George Morris, and 109 other citizens and tax-payers of Morris county, against The Board of County Commissioners, and Jonathan Hammond, as county clerk, and William F. Shamlejfer, as county treasurer, of Morris county, to restrain and enjoin the collection of a tax of ten mills on the dollar, fo.r “ railroad purposes,” levied upon the taxable real and personal property of plaintiffs and other tax-payers of said county…
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Error from Morris District Court. Injunction, brought by George Morris, and 109 other citizens and tax-payers of Morris county, against The Board of County Commissioners, and Jonathan Hammond, as county clerk, and William F. Shamlejfer, as county treasurer, of Morris county, to restrain and enjoin the collection of a tax of ten mills on the dollar, fo.r “ railroad purposes,” levied upon the taxable real and personal property of plaintiffs and other tax-payers of said county by said board of county commissioners on the 5th of September, 1870, upon the assessment made for said year. The…
1Opinion of the Court
*585The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
statement <>f pieaiings. The principal facts in this case, as shown by the pleadings, are as follows : On the 17th of January, 1871, the plaintiffs in the court below, who are plaintiffs here, filed in the clerk’s office of the district court for Morris county their petition setting forth in substance that they were tax payers of said Morris county, and the owners respectively of certain described real and personal property therein, on which an assessment and levy of taxes had been made, by the proper officers of said county, for the year…
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