Dundee Mortgage Trust Invest. Co. v. Charlton

This suit is brought to restrain the county of Linn, and the defendant Charlton, its sheriff, from collecting the one-half of the taxes levied by the county in 1884 on the mortgages owned by the plaintiff on real property therein, amounting to $1,172.85. From the bill it appears that the plaintiff is a foreign corporation, formed under the laws of Great Britain, and is the owner of promissory notes of the nominal value of $150,348.71, secured by mortgages on lands in Linn county; that the same were assessed by the assessor of said county, in the year 1884, for taxation as real property, under…