Earnest v. Standefer

HALE, O. J.

The appellant Earnest, joined by W. J. Odell and R. E. Sherrill, owning real property in - Cochran county, instituted this suit against Tom C. Standefer, the tax collector of Cochran county, and against the county judge and county commissioners to restrain them from attempting to collect from the plaintiffs excess taxes claimed to be due upon lands owned by and which had been rendered for taxation by plaintiffs, and to further restrain the defendants from collecting from plaintiffs taxes which had been levied to supplement the jury fund of the county in excess of 5 cents upon the…