Worthen v. Badgett

English, Ch. J.:

These cases were argued and submitted on the same briefs. They involve the same principal questions, and may be disposed of by one opinion.

In the first case the bill was filed in the Pulaski Chancery Court, by Noah H. Badgett and wife, land owners and tax-payers of Pulaski County, for the benefit of themselves, and such other tax-payers whose lands were in the condition of theirs, as might think proper to make themselves parties, and claim the benefit of the relief prayed for by the bill. Robert W. Worthen, Clerk of the County Court of Pulaski County, was made defendant, and…