Shewalter v. Brown

This action was brought by the plaintiffs in error, to recover a certain sum of money, alleged to have been illegally collected of them by the defendant, as tax collector of Hinds county.

The declaration alleges, in substance, that the plaintiffs being engaged in the business of trading in horses, mules, and slaves, in Hinds county, during the months of November and December, 1856, and January, February, and part of March, 1857, sold slaves to the amount of seventy thousand dollars, and on the 2d of February, 1857, the act of the legislature, hereinafter mentioned, taxing such property so…