Farmers & Merchants Bank v. City of Vandalia

The appellant brought this suit to recover $726.88 of city taxes, which it claims was illegally assessed and paid by it. to the collector under protest.

It is based on the common count of money had and received to the appellant’s use. The undisputed facts are that appellant is organized as a bank under the banking laws of this State; that the assessor of the township in which the bank is situated, within the time limited by law in. the year 1891, presented to the cashier of the bank a corporation blank for the assessment of its property, which did not contain a list of the stockholders, and…