Coal Run Coal Co. v. Finlen

This was a bill brought by the Coal Bun Coal Company, to enjoin the county clerk of LaSalle county from extending' taxes upon the assessed value of the capital stock and franchise of the company, as assessed and returned by the State: Board of Equalization for the year 1883.

Two questions are presented and relied upon to reverse the-decree dismissing the bill: First, that division fourth of section 3 of the Bevenue act, which relates to the taxation of the-capital stock of companies and associations in this State, as-amended in 1879, violates the rule of uniformity provided for by section 1,…