Buchanan v. Knoxville & O. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This was a suit by the Knoxville & Ohio Railroad Company against John Buchanan, governor, M. T. House, and Charles A. Miller, constituting the board of examiners for the assessment of taxes against railroads of the state of Tennessee, and J. W. Allen, comptroller of Tennessee, to restrain the levy and .collection of taxes on complainant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee. This was a suit by the Knoxville & Ohio Railroad Company against John Buchanan, governor, M. T. House, and Charles A. Miller, constituting the board of examiners for the assessment of taxes against railroads of the state of Tennessee, and J. W. Allen, comptroller of Tennessee, to restrain the levy and .collection of taxes on complainant. The circuit court granted a decree for complainant. Defendants appealed. The original bill in ibis caso was filed in the court below on the 19th of December, 1891, by the…
1Opinion of the CourtSeverens, District Judge
The public transactions out of which the present controversy arises have been Hie subject of considerable litigation in the courts of Tennessee, and on several occasions have been under review in the federal courts, and we have had the aid of the discussions which have taken place in those cases in reaching our present conclusions. An extended argument was made by counsel for the state, in their original brief and at. the hearing, upon an analysis of the. tiurtythird section of the act of February 25, 1856, to prove that, inasmuch as, by the language of the act, exemption from taxation was…
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