Davis v. Gaines
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Chicot Circuit Court, in Chancery. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Judge. The questions in this case depend upon the constitutionality of the act of March 20, 1883, to provide for building and repairing levees in Chicot county. This act was framed on the model of the act of 1857, the constitutionality of which was sustained in 21 Ark., jf.0, and ib., 60. Section 19 of the act gives all parties a day in court to be heard, and though after payment, yet in ample time.
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APPEAL from Chicot Circuit Court, in Chancery. Hon. J. M. Bradley, Judge. The questions in this case depend upon the constitutionality of the act of March 20, 1883, to provide for building and repairing levees in Chicot county. This act was framed on the model of the act of 1857, the constitutionality of which was sustained in 21 Ark., jf.0, and ib., 60. Section 19 of the act gives all parties a day in court to be heard, and though after payment, yet in ample time. Welty on Assessments, sec. 250, and note 8; 21 Fed. Rey., 99; 100 N. Y., 585-9; Cooley on Tax., }¡.1¡.9,150. Giving the taxpayer…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The complaint of George T. Gaines states in substance, that he owned certain lands in Chicot county, valued for taxation in 1882 at $10,578$ on which had, for that year, been levied state aud. county taxes amounting to $312.55, which were paid by him. That after these taxes had been levied and extended on the tax-books, the clerk, under the act of the general assembly of the state of Arkansas, entitled “an act to provide for building and repairing levees in Chicot county,” approved March 20, 1883, added a tax of 1 per cent on said lands, and extended the same on the tax-books, and defendant,…
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