Armstrong v. Mayor of Hagerstown

This was an action of assumpsit hy the appellees against the appellant to recover city taxes levied on certain hank-stock and other personal property of the latter. The case was submitted to the Court below upon an agreed statement of facts, in which it was admitted that the property upon which the appellant insisted the corporate authorities of Hagerstown had no right to impose a tax, amounted, in hank-stock, to $7,910, and in personal securities, to $200; that the tax levied was sixty cents on the hundred dollars, and that if the Court should be of opinion the bank-stock was liable to…