Detroit, G. H. & M. Ry. Co. v. Fuller
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Equity. Suits by the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company and by the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada against Oramel B. Fuller, Auditor General, and Franz C. Kuhn, Attorney General, to restrain the enforcement of Pub. Acts Mich. 1911, No. 95, imposing a tax on the stock, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness of specially chartered railway companies. Demurrers to the bills overruled, and defendants allowed time to answer.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
These suits involve the constitutionality of Act No. 95, Public Acts of Michigan for the year 1911, under which certain taxes have been assessed against the owners or holders of the stock, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness of the Detroit, Grand Plaven & Milwaukee Railway Company, and also *88involve the validity of such taxes on other grounds than the constitutionality of that act as against such owners or holders. The Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company is what is known as a specially chartered railway company, being organized and existing under an…
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