Legal Opinion

O'Neal v. Virginia & Maryland Bridge Co.

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided November 2, 1861PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from the- Equity side of the Circuit Court for Baltimore. City. This appeal is from au order making perpetual an injunction, granted upon a bill, filed on the 14th of December 1857, by the Appellee against the Appellants, the collector of the tax and the county commissioners of Washington county, for the years 1854 and 1855, restraining the defendants from selling certain property of the complainant,, for the payment of the State and county taxes for those years.

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Appeal from the- Equity side of the Circuit Court for Baltimore. City. This appeal is from au order making perpetual an injunction, granted upon a bill, filed on the 14th of December 1857, by the Appellee against the Appellants, the collector of the tax and the county commissioners of Washington county, for the years 1854 and 1855, restraining the defendants from selling certain property of the complainant,, for the payment of the State and county taxes for those years. The bill, answers, and admissions of fact, show, that the complainant was incorporated by an Act of Virginia, passed in…

1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.

The admissions of fact, to be found in the agreement, on which this case was tried, render it unnecessary to examine the points that were so fully argued at the bar, touching the inter-state rights of Maryland and Virginia. It is admitted that the property on which this tax was assessed, lies within the limits of Washington county, in this State,' this brings it under the operation of the 17th section of the Act of 1852, ch. 337, which provides, that where the office of a turnpike, railroad, canal, or other improvement corporation, is not within the State, “the assessable properly of such…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Providence Bank v. BillingsSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  2. Gott v. CarrCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1834
  3. Methodist Protestant Church v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1848
  4. Howell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1845
  5. Young v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1835

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Millwright v. RomerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1982
  2. Tumulty v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1939
  3. Mayor of Baltimore v. UlmanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1894
  4. Hallenbeck v. HahnNebraska Supreme Court · 1873
  5. State v. U. S. & Canada Express Co.Supreme Court of New Hampshire · 1880

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