Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. v. Douglas County
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a Wisconsin railroad corporation, owning a line of road extending from Duluth and Superior south-westward through Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska, found that tributary to its lines in the West were raised very large quantities of the coarser grains, a large share of which sought the Eastern markets.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a Wisconsin railroad corporation, owning a line of road extending from Duluth and Superior south-westward through Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska, found that tributary to its lines in the West were raised very large quantities of the coarser grains, a large share of which sought the Eastern markets. In attempting to' compete for the carrying of this grain to- navigable water, it found at Superior and Duluth, constituting the principal point for that purpose, serious obstacles iu…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The question of the exact limits in practical application of our statutory scheme of taxing each of our railroads as a whole, heretofore by an impost measured by the gross earnings, and reciprocally exempting the various specific pieces of real and personal property which together and in connection with its franchise constitute the railroad, has been often considered, but, we are constrained to confess, with imperfect success in prescribing either principles or rules which have been found workable as later cases have arisen. E.ach such case, while paying apparent deference to the ultimate…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Merrill Railway & Lighting Co. v. City of MerrillWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
- Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
- Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Board of SupervisorsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Co. v. Douglas CountyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Board of SupervisorsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1880
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- Terminal Warehouse Co. v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1931
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1970
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