Lake County v. Rollins
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR’ TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows : This action was instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado.
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ERROR’ TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows : This action was instituted in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. It is a suit against the county of Lake, in that State, and is based on a large number of county warrants issued for the ordinary county expenses, such as witnesses’ and jurors’ fees, election costs, charges for the board of prisoners, county treasurer’s commissions, etc. The county has offered several defences; but' the • view we take of the case renders it…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamae
We are unable to assent either to the conclusions of the court below, or to the positions of defendant in error. The language of the sixth section seems to be neither complicated nor doubtful; and we think it plain that what is meant is exactly what is said; no more and no less. It deals with the subject of county debts; and to begin with, assumes a unit of measurement which is one and one- half dollars in the thousand of assessed values; that is, one and one half mills on the dollar. This is about equal to the average amount of taxes levied for county purposes per annum under normal…
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