Phillips v. Lewis

Freeman, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of the court:

This suit is brought to recover from the tax collector of Giles county, two dollars paid as a tax on two dogs, one by the agreed case is the property of Phillips, the other is a “stray dog’' of no value, which was on the plaintiffs premises, and harbored by plaintiff. The tax was paid under protest, and this suit brought, no doubt, for the purpose of testing the question of the constitutionality of the act of the legislature on this subject.

*236The act of tlie legislature of March 22d, 1875 [Acts 1875, cli. 67], is as follows: Section 1. “That…