Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Redwine

The present proceedings is another chapter in the history of the efforts of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company to maintain its rights to the partial exemption from taxation provided by Section 15 of the Act of 1833 incorporating that railroad. Georgia Laws of 1833, p. 264. The facts of the present proceeding were outlined in a former ruling appearing in D.C. 85 F.Supp. 749.

Upon such former hearing of this case, it appeared that the field of dispute had been rather thoroughly explored and tested in past adjudications, which are there referred to, and whereby the validity of the exemption…