State ex rel. Vance v. Dixie Portland Cement Co.

*55The defendant appealed from a decree awarding D. B. Vance, state revenue agent, and A. R. Hall, tax attorney, a fee of $1,214.70, as compensation in a delinquent tax case. The revenue agent and tax attorney appealed, insisting that their fee should have been fifteen per cent, upon $20,119.99 taxes alleged to he delinquent.

The bill was filed January 16, 1922, to recover, on behalf of the State and county, a balance of $20,199.99, appearing on the tax books of Marion county as taxes payable in 1920, and delinquent from March 1, 1921. The defendant contends that the assessment for 1920 was…