Rutland R. Co. v. Central Vermont R. Co. (Two Cases)
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY IN' THE STATE OF VERMONT. These were two writs of error to review decrees of the Court of Chancery for the county of Franklin and State of Yermont, denying, in accordance with mandates of. the Supreme Court of the State, the right of the Rutland Railroad Company, which had leased its railroad to the Central Yermont Railroad Company, to recover the amount of taxes assessed upon the gross earnings of that railroad, under the…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY IN' THE STATE OF VERMONT. These were two writs of error to review decrees of the Court of Chancery for the county of Franklin and State of Yermont, denying, in accordance with mandates of. the Supreme Court of the State, the right of the Rutland Railroad Company, which had leased its railroad to the Central Yermont Railroad Company, to recover the amount of taxes assessed upon the gross earnings of that railroad, under the laws of the State, and paid by the Central Yermont Railroad. Company, and by it deducted from the rent due to the Rutland…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Geay,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.,
It was hardly denied at the bar, that the first writ of error was prematurely sued out, before a final decree had been entered. But it is unnecessary to dwell upon that, because in other respects the questions arising upon the two writs of error ate identical.
The decree below, as appears by the mandate of the Supreme Court of Vermont, and still more clearly by its opinion, made part of the record, and reported in 63 Vermont, 1, did not proceed exclusively on the decision of a Federal quéstion, but also upon grounds…
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- Eustis v. BollesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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