Board of Sup'rs v. Ill. Cent. R. Co.

On November 10, 1938, the Board of Supervisors of Attala county passed an order levying taxes for the fiscal year 1938, by which, among other items, a tax of one mill was levied on all the taxable property, including homesteads as defined by H. B. No. 2, Special Session of 1938, for the support of paupers and county homes; on January 30, 1939, the railroad company paid its taxes under protest, and on the 6th of March, 1939, filed a petition for a refund of the one mill tax levied for the support of paupers, claiming that levy to be in excess of the limit allowed by law, and therefore void.…