Wright v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
certiorari to the circuit court of appeals for the fifth CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This case comes here on certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals, that court having affirmed, per curiam, a decree of' the Circuit Court enjoining the Comptroller General of Georgia from collecting a tax for the year 1900. 116 Fed. Rep. 669; 117 Fed. Rep. 1007. Ip view of the conclusion to which we have been driven, it is enough to say that the question presented is whether shares of stock in the Western Railway of Alabama, an Alabama corporation, held by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a Georgia corporation, are taxable as property of the latter, by the State of Georgia, under…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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