Dumphy v. Supervisors of Humboldt County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Humboldt District Cowt. The plaintiff presented a petition to the Hon. Ed. E. Duffle, Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, asking for an injunction to restrain the collection of a five ¡3er cent railroad tax, which was refused. Prom the decision denying the injunction, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. Plaintiff alleges in his petition that in the year 1881, under the provisions of chapter 123, acts Sixteenth General Assembly (Miller’s Code, pp. 358-361; McClain’s Statutes, pp. 369-372), a tax of five per centum was voted upon the taxable property of Humboldt township, in Humboldt county, to aid in building the.Cedar Eapids, Iowa Falls & Northwestern Eailroad, and that unless restrained the supervisors and auditor of the county, who are made defendants, will proceed to levy the tax so voted and place it upon the tax books. Plaintiff shows that he is the owner of property situated in the…
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