Columbia Ry., Gas & Electric Co. v. Jones

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

Action was brought'in the Circuit Court by the Columbia Railway, Gas & Electric Company to enjoin defendants as the duly constituted authorities of the State from collecting a tax assessed against said plaintiff under and by virtue of the provisions of Section 369, Vol. I, Code of 1912, imposing an annual license fee of “three mills on the gross income’- of the public service corporations therein named. The appeal is from the Circuit decree of Judge W. H. Townsend holding that the tax or fees claimed by the State were properly…