Hunnewell v. Cass County
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. Hunuewell, for himself and others, citizens, all, of States other than Nebraska, filed a hill in the court below against Cass and other counties of the State of Nebraska., their treasurers, and the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, to obtain an injunction on the said treasurers, to preveut their collecting State and county taxes which had been levied on certain lands granted to the said company by an…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. Hunuewell, for himself and others, citizens, all, of States other than Nebraska, filed a hill in the court below against Cass and other counties of the State of Nebraska., their treasurers, and the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, to obtain an injunction on the said treasurers, to preveut their collecting State and county taxes which had been levied on certain lands granted to the said company by an act of Congress. He alleged himself and the others to be stockholders in the company; that the lands on which the taxes…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The ground of exemption claimed by the bill in this case, so far as not disposed of by the case of Railroad, Company v. McShane, just decided, reste upon the allegation that the costs of selecting, surveying, and conveying the lands had not been paid at the time of their assessment for taxes of the year 1872, these being the taxes in dispute. In regard to this ground, we find ourselves embarrassed by two very troublesome questions, if their solution is essential to a decision of the case, as was assumed in the argument.
1. What is the latest period at which, by the laws of Nebraska, the right…
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