Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railway Co. v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. This case originated in an action at law begun December 7, 1893, jn the circuit court for the first district of Mississippi, by Wirt Adams, revenue agent, suing for the use of the State and of the counties through which the defendant railways pass, against the Yazoo and Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company, incorporated under an act of the legislature of Mississippi of February 17, 1882, and also against the Illinois…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. This case originated in an action at law begun December 7, 1893, jn the circuit court for the first district of Mississippi, by Wirt Adams, revenue agent, suing for the use of the State and of the counties through which the defendant railways pass, against the Yazoo and Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company, incorporated under an act of the legislature of Mississippi of February 17, 1882, and also against the Illinois Central .Railroad Company, as successors in interest by consolidation, of a number of other railways, to recover taxes…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beown
Motion was made to dismiss this writ of error upon the grounds: First, that the Federal question was not raised until after the decision of the Supreme Court on June 20, 1898. Second, that the action of the defendants in withdrawing their pleas and permitting a. judgment nil dicit to go against, them, because the circuit court had struck from the files their additional pleas attempting to set up a Federal question, was an admission that they had no defence upon’ the facts of the case, and deprived them of any right to insist upon a Federal question. Third, that the petition for removal was…
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