Union & Planters' Bank v. Memphis
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT AND FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. The Union and Planters’ Bank of Memphis was incorporated under a charter granted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee in 1858, which contained the following provision: “ That said company shall pay ah annual tax of one half of one per cent on each share of stock subscribed, which shall be in lieu of all other taxes.” The corporation was located in the city of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, and that city, pursuant to an act of…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Chief Justice Fullee,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. •
Diversity of citizenship did not exist, and the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court rested solely on the ground that the cause of action arose under the Constitution of the United States. The appeal lay directly to this court under section five of the J udiciary Act of March 3, 1891, and not to the Circuit Court of Appeals. American Sugar Refining Company v. New Orleans, 181 U. S. 277. Nevertheless an appeal having been prosecuted to the latter court and having there gone to decree, an appeal was…
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