Parmley v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
[These were bills in equity by Duncan S. Parmley against the St. Louis, Iron Mouu-tain & Southern Railroad Company; Amos Paul against Pacific Railroad Company; Ozias Bailey against Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company; Frederick St. John against Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, and Milton Courtright against Clark, state auditor, and others.] These are the cases above reported, and at the September term, 1S74, they came before the court (Miller and Dillon, JJ., and by…
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[These were bills in equity by Duncan S. Parmley against the St. Louis, Iron Mouu-tain & Southern Railroad Company; Amos Paul against Pacific Railroad Company; Ozias Bailey against Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company; Frederick St. John against Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, and Milton Courtright against Clark, state auditor, and others.] These are the cases above reported, and at the September term, 1S74, they came before the court (Miller and Dillon, JJ., and by their request Treat, J., sat at the argument). The bills, as amended, in the several cases, in substance, set forth and…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, Circuit Justice
(orally). I will proceed to state what conclusions the court has come to in regard to the suits to enjoin the state and counties from collecting taxes of railroads, which have been argued before us for the last three days.
The counsel engaged in the cases will see that it has been almost impossible for us to give any full consideration to the arguments which have been presented, and which were the result of a great deal of labor and research, and upon one branch of the subject —at least upon one of the most interesting questions that can come before the court — I mean the extent to which a…
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