State v. American Ry. Express Co.

This case is re-' markable for the number of times appellee has shifted its defense. In the court a qua, the defense was that it had paid its licensfe on the same basis as domestic corporations, that Act 127 of 1898 was repealed by the Constitution of 1921, and that the statute was violative of section 1 of article 10 of said Constitution, requiring taxes to be equal and uniform. In this court, defendant contended by brief, and without plea, that the statute was unconstitutional because it attempted to license foreign corporations differently from domestic corporations. Another defense, ■…