State v. Ramsey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Werts, J.

An assessment for taxes, for the year 1891, •was levied by the assessor of Raritan township, Iiunderdon •county, upon shares of the capital stock of the Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Companies, owned by the prosecutor.

This writ of certiorari is brought to restrain the defendant, ■as collector of the township, from collecting the tax so imposed.

By the agreed-on state of the case it appears that the prosecutor is a resident of Hunterdon county, this state; that the three companies named are all foreign…