Columbus Southern Railway Co. v. Wright
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE SUPREME OOUET OF THE STATE OF GEOEGIA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The question presented by the record in this case is whether an act of the legislature of Georgia, approved October 16, 1889, entitled “ An act to provide a system of taxation of • railroad property in each of the counties of this State through which said railroads run, and to provide a mode of assessing and collecting the same, and for other purposes,” Laws of Georgia,■ 1889, No. 399, p. 29, violates that clause of the Lour*-, teentli Amendment to the Constitution .of the United States which declares that “no State shall deny to any person within, its jurisdiction the equal protection of its…
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