Allis v. Jefferson County

On the eighteenth of October, 1879, appellant, a citizen and taxpayer of Jefferson county, applied, by petition to the circuit court, and obtained a writ of certiorari to the county court to bring up the proceedings had in the levy of the taxes, and making appropriations for the county.

Upon the return of the writ, it appeared that the county court, composed of the judge and a quorum of the justices, convened on the sixth of October, 1879, the time prescribed by law.

A committee of its members, appointed for the purpose, reported to the court the assessed value of the real and personal property…