Bass v. Mayor of Columbus
Supreme Court of Georgia
Illegality, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decision by Judge ~Worrill, at November Term, 1859. A tax ft. fa. was issued by authority of the Mayor and Counsel of the City of Columbus, directed to the marshal of said city, commanding him of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Bass & Cleghorn, of the Perry House, to levy and sell so much as would he sufficient to raise the sum of four hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of the corporation and…
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Illegality, in Muscogee Superior Court. Decision by Judge ~Worrill, at November Term, 1859. A tax ft. fa. was issued by authority of the Mayor and Counsel of the City of Columbus, directed to the marshal of said city, commanding him of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of Bass & Cleghorn, of the Perry House, to levy and sell so much as would he sufficient to raise the sum of four hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of the corporation and railroad tax assessed against them for the year 1859, execution dated 15th April, 1859. By virtue of said execution,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
On the 11th of December, 1858, the Legislature passed an Act to make valid and binding the subscriptions theretofore made by the Mayor and Counsel of the City of Columbus to the stock of the Mobile & Girard Eailroad Company, and to the stock of the Montgomery and West Point Eailroad Company; and to make valid and binding the bonds issued by the said Mayor and Council, to said companies in payment of the same; and to declare and make valid the ordinances theretofore passed by said Mayor and Council, authorizing the collection of taxes for the…
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