McKinney v. Watson
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by W. B. McKinney against B. A. Watson, as pretended corporation commissioner, Thomas B. Kay, as State Treasurer, and Ben W. Olcott, as Secretary of State. The plaintiff styles himself a resident, citizen and taxpayer, owning real and personal property in the state, subject to taxation, and brings this suit for himself and for all other taxpayers in the state.
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From Marion: William Galloway, Judge. In Banc. Statement by Mr. Justice Burnett. This is a suit by W. B. McKinney against B. A. Watson, as pretended corporation commissioner, Thomas B. Kay, as State Treasurer, and Ben W. Olcott, as Secretary of State. The plaintiff styles himself a resident, citizen and taxpayer, owning real and personal property in the state, subject to taxation, and brings this suit for himself and for all other taxpayers in the state. He seeks to enjoin the Secretary of State from auditing, and the State Treasurer from paying, claims for salaries incurred by the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burnett
delivered tbe opinion of the court.
Tbe action in question, like most of tbe laws providing for government by commission, devotes much space to salaries and expenses of administration and other matters well calculated to make tbe taxpayer look askance. It authorizes tbe establishment of a corporation department, and that all fees, charges, interest, fines and penalties provided by tbe act itself or hereto*223fore paid into the public treasury by foreign and domestic corporations, joint-stock companies, and associations shall go into a fund to be known as the “corporation fund,” which shall be…
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