Town of Fairplay v. Board of County Commissioners

Fairplay, a municipal corporation within the limits of the county of Park, claims the right to recover from the county her proportion of the road tax collected by the county for the years 1887 to 1894 inclusive, amounting in the aggregate, including interest, to the sum of about two thousand dollars. The statute under which the town claims is as follows:

“The board of county commissioners of the respective counties of the state may levy a property tax for road purposes, which shall not exceed one dollar on each one hundred dollars, to be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same…