Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Our Tax Ferret Case Decided. [ARTICLE]

Our Tax Ferret Case Decided.

The State Supreme Court handed down its decision, Thursday, in the so-called tax ferret case, from this county, which has been pending for some two' or three years. This is the celebrated case, growing out of the action of our county commissioners, in hiring Fleener & Perkins, tax ferrets, to search for omitted or <*mcealed property, with the purpose of having the same placed Upon the duplicate, for taxation. The ferrets were to have 50 per cent of all they caused to be recovered in this way, for compensation. Aotion was brought against the commissioners, with Elias Marion as nominal plaintiff, to invalidate the contract and to forever enjoin the commissioners from making another like it. Judge Thompson granted a temporary injunction and Judge Palmer set aside the contract and made the injunction permanent. The Supreme Court now reverses Judge Palmer’s decision, on the same grounds as was the similar case from the city of Richmond, a few days ago, the particulars of which were related in Thursday’s Republican, in which the right to employ tax ferrets was fully sustained.