In re the Taxation of Electro-Pneumatic Transit Co.

Bird, V. C.

The petitions in these cases were filed by the attorney-general, showing that the respondents had been assessed under the act of the legislature entitled “An act to provide for the imposition of state taxes upon certain corporations and for the collection thereof” [Rev. Sup. p. 1017), approved April 18th, 1884, their refusal to pay and praying for an injunction enjoining them from *72the exercise of any franchise of said corporation or the transaction of any business until the said corporation shall ha-ve paid said tax and interest due thereon.

All the allegations in these petitions…