Conn v. Ringer

HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants filed their bill in the District Court to enjoin the levy and collection of Ohio general property taxes upon property in Van Wert county held by them in trust for purely public charity and known as the Marsh Foundation. These taxes covered both real and personal property for the years 1922 and 1923 and real estate only for subsequent years. The ground of alleged federal jurisdiction was the denial to plaintiffs of due process and equal protection of the laws, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, by omitting…