Union Pacific Railroad v. County of Howard

Albert, 0.. This action was brought by the Union Pacific Railroad Company against Howard county and certain officers thereof to restrain the collection of certain taxes levied against the taxable property of one of the precincts of said county to pay for public scales erected in such precinct. The levy was originally made on the basis of seven mills on the dollar, which made the entire levy in excess of the constitutional limit. The county board afterward reduced the levy to four and three-fifths mills on the dollar, which brought it within such limit, and made no claim against *664the plaintiff…