Pittsburgh &C. Railway v. Board of Public Works
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway-Company, a corporation of the State of Ohio, owning and operating a railway running through the States of West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, .Indiana and Illinois, under the laws of those States, and crossing the Ohio River, a navigable stream, forming the boundary between the States of West Virg'inia and Ohio, by means of a bridge…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA. The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway-Company, a corporation of the State of Ohio, owning and operating a railway running through the States of West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, .Indiana and Illinois, under the laws of those States, and crossing the Ohio River, a navigable stream, forming the boundary between the States of West Virg'inia and Ohio, by means of a bridge built, owned and controlled by the plaintiff, filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of West…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The collection of taxes assessed under the authority of a State is not to be restrained by writ of injunction from a court of the United States, unless it clearly appears, not only that the tax is illegal, but that the owner of the property taxed has no adequate remedy by the ordinary processes of the law, and that there are special circumstances bringing the case under some recognized head of equity jurisdiction. Dows v. Chicago, 11 Wall. 108; Hannewinkle v. Georgetown, 15 Wall. 547; State Railroad Tax cases, 92 U. S. 575; Union Pacific Railway v. Cheyenne, 113 U. S. 516; Milwaukee v.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Taylor v. SecorSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Dows v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. BackusSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Kelly v. PittsburghSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Shelton v. PlattSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
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