Floyd County v. Salmon

The Civil Code (1910), § 1202, provides that “the county shall pay the receiver one half of what the collector gets for collecting the county tax.” By an act of the General Assembly, approved August 17, 1918 (Acts 1918, p. 110), section 1202 of the Civil Code of 1910 was so amended as to be read as follows: “ The county shall pay the receiver the same compensation the collector *314gets for collecting the county tax.” J. Z. Salmon, tax-receiver of Floyd county, claimed as such receiver, for the year 1918, the same compensation allowed the tax-collector for collecting the county tax. The county…