Lander v. Mercantile Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FEOM THE CIECUIT COUBT OF APPEALS FOE THE SIXTH CIECUIT. This suit was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of Ohio, Eastern District, to restrain the collection- of certain taxes levied by the officers of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, upon the appellee bank.
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APPEAL FEOM THE CIECUIT COUBT OF APPEALS FOE THE SIXTH CIECUIT. This suit was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of Ohio, Eastern District, to restrain the collection- of certain taxes levied by the officers of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, upon the appellee bank. The grounds of the suit were that the acts of the taxing officers of said county were in violation of the “ rights of the plaintiff-(appellee) and of its' shareholders accorded to them by section 5219 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, securing to said shareholders a restriction of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Tbe Circuit Court of Appeals based its opinion on two ques-ions: (1) The jurisdiction of the state board of equalization for incorporated’ banks to increase, without notice to the bank, the valuation fixed by the county auditor on the shares of its stock,; (2) the fact of the former adjudications as determining the right to reduce the valuation o£ the shares by .taking bona fide indebtedness therefrom. Counsel for appellee objects to a broader discussion by appellant’s counsel of the case than those questions present, Urging they were the only ones made by the ap-pellee in the Circuit Court…
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