Puget Sound Nat. Bank v. King County
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Washington
In Equity. Suit by the Puget Sound National Bank of Seattle for an injunction to prevent threatened proceedings to enforce - payment by said bank of state and county taxes for the year 1891 npon its capital stock. Cited, as sustaining the validity of the tax, the following decisions of the United States supreme court: Hepburn v. School Directors, 23 Wall. 480: Mercantile Bank v. City of New York, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 826, 121 U. S. 138; Talbott v. Silver Bow Co., 11 Sup. Ct.
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In Equity. Suit by the Puget Sound National Bank of Seattle for an injunction to prevent threatened proceedings to enforce - payment by said bank of state and county taxes for the year 1891 npon its capital stock. Cited, as sustaining the validity of the tax, the following decisions of the United States supreme court: Hepburn v. School Directors, 23 Wall. 480: Mercantile Bank v. City of New York, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 826, 121 U. S. 138; Talbott v. Silver Bow Co., 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 594, 139 U. S. 438; Palmer v. McMahon, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 324, 133 U. S. 660.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
This case, having been argued and submitted upon a demurrer to the bill of complaint, the court is not called upon at this time to give an opinion upon all questions which have been debated, or do more than decide as to the sufficiency of the bill of complaint to support a decree for any part, of the relief prayed for, if the averments thereof shall be confessed or proven. The bill does explicitly set forth the fact and the manner of discrimination against shareholders of national bank stock, in the valuation thereof for assessment, as compared with the assessment for…
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- Pelton v. National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Boyer v. BoyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- First National Bank v. County of ChehalisWashington Supreme Court · 1893
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