State Ex Rel. v. Collier

Mr. Chiee Justice G-reen

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a tax suit in which a number of bills seeking the recovery of state, county and city taxes have been consolidated. The matter has been twice before this court heretofore, as appears from decisions reported in 160 Tenn., 403, .and 165 Tenn., 28. Upon the last appeal the cause was remanded for a resale of certain of the properties involved for reasons shown in the last opinion.

Pending the resale a petition was filed in the chancery court briefly setting out the previous course of the litigation, pointing out that defendants had…