Legal Opinion

A. T. & S. F. Railroad v. Woodcock

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided January 15, 1877PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Error from Sedgwick District Court. Injunction, brought by the Railroad Company, to restrain certain alleged illegal taxes. The district judge granted a temporary injunction, 30th January 1875. Afterward, and after the passage and approval of ch. 8, laws of 1875, said temporary injunction was dissolved, on motion of Woodcock, county treasurer. Plaintiff appeals from the order dissolving the injunction, and brings the case here on error.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was an action brought by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad Company to perpetually enjoin the collection of certain taxes. It seems that in 1874 the county commissioners of Sedgwick county, and various school-district boards of said county, levied various taxes on the property within said county, and within said school districts respectively, several of which said taxes are claimed by the plaintiff in this case to be illegal and void. This action was commenced to restrain the collection of such of said taxes as are claimed to…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Atchison & Nebraska Railroad v. MaquilkinSupreme Court of Kansas · 1873

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Jackson v. PauleySupreme Court of Kansas · 1910
  2. State Ex Rel. Schneider v. City of TopekaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1980
  3. Smith v. HaneySupreme Court of Kansas · 1906
  4. National Bank v. BarberSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
  5. State ex rel. Faulconer v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1911

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