Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Company v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATIC OF KENTUCKY. This action was brought against the Louisville and Jefferson-ville Ferry Company, a corporation of Kentucky, to recover certain taxes alleged to be due that Commonwealth in virtue of the valuation and assessment by the State Board of Yaluation and Assessment of the corporate franchise of the defendant company for the year 1894. Some of the provisions of the Revised Statutes of Kentucky under which that Board proceeded…
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATIC OF KENTUCKY. This action was brought against the Louisville and Jefferson-ville Ferry Company, a corporation of Kentucky, to recover certain taxes alleged to be due that Commonwealth in virtue of the valuation and assessment by the State Board of Yaluation and Assessment of the corporate franchise of the defendant company for the year 1894. Some of the provisions of the Revised Statutes of Kentucky under which that Board proceeded are given in the margin.1 The company filed an answer, which upon demurrer was adjudged to be insufficient. The.…
1Opinion of the Court · HaelaNJustice HaelaN
The ferry company insists that the Judgment of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, affirming the judgment of the court of original jurisdiction, (which sustained the action of the State Board of Valuation and Assessment,) had the effect to deny rights belonging to it under the Constitution of the United States.
It is appropriate here to state the grounds upon which the Court of Appeals of Kentucky proceeded. That court said: “ The judgments from which the appeals are prosecuted are for the franchise tax for the years 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, and 1898. The appellant is a corporation organized…
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