City of Davenport v. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Court. The agreed statement of facts is embodied in the opinion of the court. I. The State of Iowa and the City of Davenport have tho power to tax a mortgage on property situated in, and protested by their laws, when the owner of the property is a non-resident. Acts of 1858, p. 305, §§ 2 and 3 ; Charter of the City of Davenport, Art. 1, § 1, p. 127 ; Rev. Ord.
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Appeal from Scott District Court. The agreed statement of facts is embodied in the opinion of the court. I. The State of Iowa and the City of Davenport have tho power to tax a mortgage on property situated in, and protested by their laws, when the owner of the property is a non-resident. Acts of 1858, p. 305, §§ 2 and 3 ; Charter of the City of Davenport, Art. 1, § 1, p. 127 ; Rev. Ord. Feb. 1851, Art. 5. The People v. Mayor of Brooklyn, 4 Cow. 419 ; Barlow v. The City of Charleston, 1 Nott & McCord? 527; The People v. The Mayor of Brooklyn, 2 Barb. 215 ’ The Bank of The U. S. v. McKenzie, 2…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwiN, J.
This cause was submitted to the District Court upon an agreed statement of facts, which are substantially as follows:
I. That one defendant was an incorporation duly authorized by the laws of this State, with the eastern terminus of its road,' and its chief place of business at Davenport, in Scott county, in Iowa, and in Iowa its proposed western terminus.
II. That on the first day of July,1855, the said company made a deed of trust or mortgage to one E. H. Denham, to secure its bonds to the amount of one million of dollars on its land, track, depot grounds and rolling stock, located within…
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