Garrett v. Robertson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. H. H. Elmore, Judge. Suit by Stokes Y. Eobertson, state revenue agent, against T. C. Garrett, sheriff and tax collector of Le-flore county. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The. facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Leflore county. Hon. H. H. Elmore, Judge. Suit by Stokes Y. Eobertson, state revenue agent, against T. C. Garrett, sheriff and tax collector of Le-flore county. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The. facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We have just received, and read with much interest, the reply brief of appellee, ’ ánd note that counsel say that the assessor proceeded under section 4277 of the Code of 1906, at the instance of the board of supervisors, to assess these banks for property that -had escaped taxation for the year…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
Stokes V. Robertson, state revenue agent, filed suit in the circuit court against the sheriff and tax collector of Leflore county for the sum of nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-seven cents, being twenty per cent, of the amount of county taxes of two banks of Greenwood paid to the sheriff. Plaintiff avers that these taxes were paid to the sheriff as the result of two suits instituted hy him against these hanks; that the tax collector had paid over- to the county its share of these taxes, hut that he retains and has in his possession the *742twenty per cent, commissions due the…
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