Tallassee Manufacturing Co. v. Spigener
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Elmore. Heard before the Hon. Charles Turner. — 1. The Tallassee Manufacturing Company, Number One, had been in operation for several years when the Revenue Law of 1868 was passed, but had never been completed according to its original design; and it was engaged, at the very time that law was passed, in adding new machinery, and erecting new buildings for its accommodation, in furtherance of said original design.
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Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Elmore. Heard before the Hon. Charles Turner. — 1. The Tallassee Manufacturing Company, Number One, had been in operation for several years when the Revenue Law of 1868 was passed, but had never been completed according to its original design; and it was engaged, at the very time that law was passed, in adding new machinery, and erecting new buildings for its accommodation, in furtherance of said original design. It then had in actual operation four thousand cotton-spindles and five hundred wool-spindles; and the additions consisted of fourteen thousand…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
— The bill in tbis case is filed to enjoin the tax-collector of Elmore County, in this State, from collecting the State and county taxes assessed against the appellant in the said county for the years 1869 and 1870. The injunction was dissolved, and the bill was dismissed, on the hearing below. The appellant, who was the complainant below, brings the case to this court by appeal; and here it is insisted that the chancellor erred in refusing to permit a supplemental bill to be *264filed in the progress of tbe cause in tbe court below, and in tbe final decree.
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