Thomas v. Taylor
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tlie Chancery Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. William B. Taylor, defendant in error, on the 31st of May, 1866, filed his bill in the Chancery Court of Hinds county, stating that he was the owner of fifty bales of cotton, raised in the county of Hinds, and that he was about to ship the same to market; that there was due and owing to the State of Mississippi the sum of two dollars per bale, tax "on said cotton, by virtue of an act of the…
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Error to tlie Chancery Court of Hinds county. Hon. John Watts, chancellor. William B. Taylor, defendant in error, on the 31st of May, 1866, filed his bill in the Chancery Court of Hinds county, stating that he was the owner of fifty bales of cotton, raised in the county of Hinds, and that he was about to ship the same to market; that there was due and owing to the State of Mississippi the sum of two dollars per bale, tax "on said cotton, by virtue of an act of the legislature of the' State of Mississippi, entitled “An Act laying a special tax upon certain persons and property therein named,”…
1Opinion of the CourtPeyton, J.
The defendant in error filed his bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Hinds county for the first district thereof, against the plaintiff in error, as sheriff and tax collector of said county, and B. II. Pitman, alleging that ho was the owner and possessor of fifty bales of cotton made in said county; that he had baled and prepared for market, and was about to ship the same; that there was then due and owing the sum of two dollars per bale, for tax on said fifty bales of cotton, by virtue of an act of the legislature of the State of Mississippi, entitled “ An Act levying a -special tax…
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