Ex parte White
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Petition by John P. White for a writ of habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
ARDRICH, District Judge.
In 1915 the city of Portsmouth assessed a poll tax against the petitioner, which he refused to pay, upon the ground that he was an officer of the United. States army in actual service, having residence in New York, and not in Portsmouth. Upon *89such refusal he was taken into custody, upon a warrant of the city collector, atid was thereafterwards committed to the Rockingham county jail, from which custody he seeks relief through a petition for habeas corpus, upon the claim that his detention is unlawful. At the time the tax was assessed the petitioner was a sergeant in…
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