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HOUCK v. LITTLE RIVER DISTRICT

No. 35.

239 U.S. 254 (1915)

36 S.Ct. 58

60 L.Ed. 266

HOUCK v. LITTLE RIVER DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 29, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benson C. Hardesty and Mr. Giboney Houck, with whom Mr. Thomas D. Hines was on the brief, for plaintiff in error:

Mr. Robert B. Oliver and Mr. Robert B. Oliver, Jr., with whom Mr. Allen Laws Oliver was on the brief for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiffs in error, owners of several thousand acres embraced within the Little River Drainage District, of Missouri, brought this suit to restrain the collection of a tax of twenty-five cents per acre levied generally upon the lands within the district for the purpose of paying its preliminary expenses. The district was organized in 1907 under the provisions of article 3, chapter 122, Revised Statutes of...

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