Legal Opinion

Lusk v. Ryan

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided February 12, 1918No. 7889PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Error from District Court, Okmulgee County; Ernest B. Hughes, Judge. Suit toy James W. Lusk and others, receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, and the company, against M. Ryan, County Treasurer of Ok-mulgee County. Demurrer to amended petition sustained and petition dismissed, with judgment against plaintiffs for cost, and they bring error.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion toy

OOLLIER, C.

This is a suit instituted by the plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error to recover certain illegal and excessive taxes paid by the plaintiffs in error to the defendant in error. Hereinafter the parties will be designated as they were in the trial court. The petition is very ivoluminous, and it is unnecessary for a proper understanding and determination of the question involved in this case to set it out in full. It is sufficient to state that said petition avers an excessive, illegal, and unauthorized levy of taxes, that it sets out the grounds upon which is…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Anderson v. RitterbuschSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  2. French v. SenateCalifornia Supreme Court · 1905
  3. Richardson v. McChesneySupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  4. Black v. GeisslerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
  5. Prince v. SkillinSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1880

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Blankenship v. FreemanSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1968
  2. Calvey v. DaxonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2000
  3. In Re Oklahoma Nat. Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1918
  4. Applications of Oklahoma Turnpike AuthoritySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1954
  5. Oklahoma Automobile Dealers Ass'n v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Tax CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2017

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