Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Attorney General of Commonwealth
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. In equity. The bill was filed by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the relation of the Treasurer of that State, and on behalf of the Commonwealth, in the Supreme Judicial Court of that State on the 27th April, 1886. It averred that certain proceedings had been taken in accordance with law and under the Statutes of that State, to assess taxes in that State in the…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. In equity. The bill was filed by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the relation of the Treasurer of that State, and on behalf of the Commonwealth, in the Supreme Judicial Court of that State on the 27th April, 1886. It averred that certain proceedings had been taken in accordance with law and under the Statutes of that State, to assess taxes in that State in the year 1885 upon the capital stock of the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation owning, controlling, and using,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
The action was commenced in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, sitting in equity, by an information on behalf of the ■ Commonwealth, by its Attorney General,'at the relation of the treasurer thereof, Alanson W. Beard. It was afterwards removed, upon motion of the defendant, the Western Union Telegraph Company, into the Circuit Court of the United States. The object of the information was to enforce the collection of a tax levied by the proper authorities of the State upon the…
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