Mississippi Supreme Court October 15, 1871 (Maury v. Smith)

Tabbell, J. :

Injunction to restrain the collection of taxes. The bill was filed in 1870, and charges that “John J. Smith, acting as tax collector, fraudulently and wrongfully conspiring with the late tribunal called the board of police of Claiborne county, to extort money from citizens by illegal and unauthorized measures of taxation, have carried their exactions to such an excess that