Adams v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
FROM the circuit court of Hinds county, first district. IíoN. IÍOB35R.T .Powell, Judge. The state revenue agent, proceeding under the authority conferred upon him by chapter 126, code 1892, and the act of 1894, amendatory thereof, instituted three successive actions of debt to recover from the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad Company and from the Illinois Central Railroad Company taxes which had been assessed by the state railroad assessors under authority conferred upon them by…
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FROM the circuit court of Hinds county, first district. IíoN. IÍOB35R.T .Powell, Judge. The state revenue agent, proceeding under the authority conferred upon him by chapter 126, code 1892, and the act of 1894, amendatory thereof, instituted three successive actions of debt to recover from the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad Company and from the Illinois Central Railroad Company taxes which had been assessed by the state railroad assessors under authority conferred upon them by the revenue chapter of the code and by the aforesaid act of 1894, against the railroad property which formerly had…
1Dissent
Woods, C. L,
dissented as to so much of the decision as overruled Mississippi Mills v. Cook, 56 Miss., 40, and Railroad Co. v. Lambert, 70 Ib., 779.
IJpon the filing of the opinion outlined by the summary, on the 22d day of November, the defendants moved to strike the opinion from the files on the ground that it was filed too late; that it was not such an opinion as the statute contemplated to be filed, the cause having been remanded and having been reheard in the court below, under the “summary of hold*298ings,” and a second appeal taken before the filing thereof; and, on the further ground that…
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