Union Bank of Richmond v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond, rendered April 15, 1895, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
This action was brought by the Union Bank of Richmond to recover back taxes paid by it to the city of Richmond.
' The declaration avers that the plaintiff was compelled to pay to the defendant against its protest $6,153, claimed by the city as a legal tax upon 4,395 shares of plaintiff’s capital stock assessed thereon at the market value of $100 per share, making an aggregate assessment Upon said shares of $439,500; that both the assessment and collection of this tax was illegal because the value of the shares of stock was constituted to the extent of $319,021 of property upon which the tax…
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