Nelson v. Brown

(After stating the foregoing facts.) This is a case with several very peculiar features. When we come to analyze the character of this case by an inspection of its countenance as a whole, instead of discussing the specific features, there was really one controlling question presented to the court below. That was, whether the house and lot of a woman who happens to be a wife, whose ownership of the realty sought to be recovered in this suit in ejectment is not only unquestioned but admitted, can be subjected to the tax liability of a corporation with.whom she never at any time had any…