Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — Thompson Sues the Ferrets. [ARTICLE]

Thompson Sues the Ferrets.

Ex-Judge 8. P. Thompson has brought suit, as a tax-payer, against the tax ferrets, demanded that they pay into the county treasury $4,000, claiming that the contract with them is void. That being the amount they have received on their contract. He also wants the ferrets enjoined from collecting any more taxes on omitted property. That is undoubtedly the nub of the suit, for the Supreme court has already sustained the legality of their contract