Poindexter v. Greenhow, Treasurer, Etc. In Error to the Hustings

How courts have described this case

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• permitting injunctions, restitution, and damages against state officers who seized property to collect taxes already paid with interest coupons the State had agreed to accept
• “[O]fficers have no power but what the state gives them. They act for and on behalf of the state, and in no other way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).