Evansville Bank v. Britton
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Indiana. The facts are stilted in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
These are cross-appeals from a decree rendered in a suit in chancery, in which the Evansville National Bank was complainant, and Britton, as treasurer of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, was defendant.
The case is in all essential points analogous to that of Hills v. Exchange Bank, supra, p. 319, just decided.
The principal question of law is the same as that discussed *323and decided in Supervisors v. Stanley, supra, p. 305. In fact, the three cases were advanced out of their order, and heard consecutively, because they involved important questions concerning taxation by State statutes of the shares…
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