Alcorn v. Bliss-Cook Oak Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; 1. The demurrers should have been sustained and the complaint dismissed. Act No. 116, Acts 1915, expressly repealed all prior acts and became the sole law of this case. This act fixes the area and boundaries of the district, the lands to be taxed, and determines the benefits to the extent of ten cents per acre. It is a plain legislative determination of the benefits to the lands and is conclusive.
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Appeal from Chicot Chancery Court; Z. T. Wood, Chancellor; 1. The demurrers should have been sustained and the complaint dismissed. Act No. 116, Acts 1915, expressly repealed all prior acts and became the sole law of this case. This act fixes the area and boundaries of the district, the lands to be taxed, and determines the benefits to the extent of ten cents per acre. It is a plain legislative determination of the benefits to the lands and is conclusive. The act is clearly within the power of the Legislature. 77 Ark. 383; 81 Id. 562; 83 Id. 344; 97 Id. 322; 98 Id. 113; 100 Id. 366; 103 Id.…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
This suit was instituted in the chancery court by the Bliss-Cook Oak Company and other owners of land in Chicot County against R. E. Alcorn, as collector of taxes for said county and the board of levee inspectors of Chicot County, Arkansas. The object of the suit was to enjoin the collector from collecting the levee taxes extended against said lands on the tax books in the year 1915, for the taxes of 1916, and to prevent the levee inspectors from extending levee taxes for any other years. The chancellor granted the relief prayed for and the case is here on appeal.
A levee district comprising…
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