Parker v. Grenada County

This suit is for the recovery of certain ad valorem taxes paid by the appellants to Grenada County under protest for “school maintenance” in the Greater Gore Consolidated School District for the year 1941. The case originated in the justice of the peace court and was heard there and in the circuit court without pleadings other than a statement of the amount of taxes claimed to have been illegally assessed and collected. We must therefore look to the assignment of error and the briefs of counsel to ascertain the grounds upon which the legality of the tax is challenged. It is assigned here as…