Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was an action brought November 4, 1892, in the circuit court of Montgomery County in the State of Alabama, by the State of Alabama against the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, to recover taxes and penalties claimed by the State of Alabama under its statute of February 28, 1889, c. 103. By that statute, it is enacted that.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was an action brought November 4, 1892, in the circuit court of Montgomery County in the State of Alabama, by the State of Alabama against the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, to recover taxes and penalties claimed by the State of Alabama under its statute of February 28, 1889, c. 103. By that statute, it is enacted that. “ all express and telegraph and sleeping-car companies, doing business between points wholly within this State, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
By section 1 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1875, c. 137, as amended by the acts of March 3, 1887, c. 373, and August 13, 1888, c. 866, it is enacted that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $2000, “ and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall -be made, under their authority; or in which controversy the…
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