Mayor of Mobile v. Stonewall Insurance
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before lion. H. T. Toulmin. The Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of Mobile, a municipal corporation, brought this action against the Stonewall Insurance Company, a domestic corporation, to recover a balance of a municipal tax, assessed by tbe corporate authorities on the defendants’ capital stock, employed in business during the year 1875. The case was tried on an agreed state of facts, without tbe intervention of a jury, and the…
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before lion. H. T. Toulmin. The Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of Mobile, a municipal corporation, brought this action against the Stonewall Insurance Company, a domestic corporation, to recover a balance of a municipal tax, assessed by tbe corporate authorities on the defendants’ capital stock, employed in business during the year 1875. The case was tried on an agreed state of facts, without tbe intervention of a jury, and the court rendered judgment for the defendant. The defendant is a corporation, chartered under the laws of this State, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
This cause was tried and determined in the court below, without the intervention of a jury, on an agreed state of facts. The material facts are, that the appellee is a corporation, created under the laws of this State, located and doing business in the city of Mobile, having, in the year 1875, a capital stock, employed in its business, exceeding in Amine one hundred thousand dollars. On this, as on other property subject to taxation Avithin the city, the appellants regularly assessed a tax for the year 1875, of one and a half per centum on the value thereof. The appellee paid sixty cents of…
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