Miller Ex Rel. Mississippi Levee Dist. v. Columbus & G. Ry. Co.

• The defendant owns and operates a railroad, eighteen and forty-one hundredths miles of which lie- in the Mississippi levee district, and this suit is to recover from it the sum of twelve thousand one hundred fifty dollars and sixty cents, levee taxes alleged to be due by it for the years 1926 and 1927, and statutory damages thereon. A demurrer to the tax collector’s declaration was sustained in the court below, and his suit dismissed.

Chapter 7, Laws of 18p-6. imT'/v,''d a loves tax on railroads in the Mississippi, levee district of one hundred dollars pef annum on each mile of the main line…