Opinion

Brown v. Memphis

  • 4 F. Cas. 412
  • 11 Chi. Leg. News 138
Court
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee
Filed
Jul 1, 1879
Status
Published
Author
Baxter
On the bench
Baxter, Hammond
Cited by
0 cases

The opinion

BAXTER, Circuit Judge,

decided in the Brown mandamus case that under the former judgments of the court, the plaintiff was entitled to have a tax levied sufficient to realize the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, and that it was the duty of the city to have not only levied, but to have collected that amount each year, and paid it over to the plaintiff until his judgment was paid. That it now appearing that there was an amount still due and unpaid, he would direct an additional levy, but that he would not compel this levy before the next annual levy of taxes, and the writ should direct the city to levy a tax sufficient to cover any deficit existing on or before the first day of next July, and certify the rate for collection to the proper officer on or before that day. In the meantime the city could collect and pay over whatever it was able to collect on the levies already made.

HAMMOND, District Judge,

having been of counsel, did not sit in this case.

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