Williams v. County Court of Grant Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: Joseph V. Williams, George E. Cunningham and Edward Williams suing on behalf of themselves and other tax-payers of Grant district in Grant county, filed their bill in the circuit court of Grant county against the county court of said county, A. W. Coler and Morgan T. Smith constables of said district and A. C. Scherr sheriff of said county.
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Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: Joseph V. Williams, George E. Cunningham and Edward Williams suing on behalf of themselves and other tax-payers of Grant district in Grant county, filed their bill in the circuit court of Grant county against the county court of said county, A. W. Coler and Morgan T. Smith constables of said district and A. C. Scherr sheriff of said county. In their bill they alleged that they are residents and tax-payers of said Grant district in said county, and that said county court on June 16, 1881, professing to act in pursuance of ch. 23 of…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Judge:
This was an injunction to stop the collection of what is known as the dog-tax levied by the county court of Grant county under ch. 23 of the Acts of 1881, and to restrain the county court of Grant from appropriating any money arising from this dog-tax or from any other source to the payment *493of losses to private individuals by the destruction of sheep by dogs, and to restrain the sheriff of said county from paying out for said purpose any funds that might come into his hands from this dog-tax. This act by its tenth section (see p. 270 of Acts of 1881,) provided, that it should not…
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