Brown v. Smith

Decision of

Dole, J.

This is a suit for taxes brought by the tax collector for the Island of Oahu, appointed in April, A. D. 1889, under the statute of 1888, amending and regulating “ the law relating to the appointment and tenure of office of tax assessors and tax collectors and the assessment and collection of taxes.” He claims ten dollars for taxes assessed against the person and property of said defendant on the books of the assessor of taxes for the *678District of Honolulu, Island of Oahu, for the year 1888, and states in his testimony that “ on the tax collector’s book for 1888 for Honolulu,…