People Ex Rel. Spence v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Objections were filed in the county court to various taxes in White county by appellant, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, including the objection involved in this appeal to part of the county taxes extended for the payment of bonds and interest. The objection here is that the county clerk illegally extended an additional rate of seventeen cents for bonds and interest in excess of the rate of twenty-five cents for general corporate purposes, when such clerk had no authority to extend a greater rate than fifteen cents for such additional purposes. The county court overruled…