Stanford v. City & County of San Francisco

CHIPMAN, C.

Action to recover certain taxes, paid under protest, upon certain stocks and bonds situated in Few York city. Defendant had judgment on the demurrer to the complaint, from which this appeal is prosecuted. It appears from the complaint that at his death plaintiff’s testator was the owner of a large number of stocks or shares and certain bonds of foreign corporations, all of which, except certain described shares of stock, were on and prior to the first Monday in March, 1894, in the state of Few York, and pledged as collateral security for the payment of a loan, “and were not on and…