State v. Housatonic Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by tte State to recover a tax claimed to be due from the defendant company; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court upon a general denial, before Sovey, J. The court made a special finding of the facts.
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Action by tte State to recover a tax claimed to be due from the defendant company; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the court upon a general denial, before Sovey, J. The court made a special finding of the facts. The defendants were incorporated as a railroad company by the General Assembly of this state in the. year 1836, and soon after, under the powers conferred by their charter, constructed and equipped a railroad from Bridgeport in this state to the Massachusetts state line, and ever since have possessed, maintained and operated the same. On the 11th of…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
This action is based upon the following section of the statute with regard to taxation:—
“ Sec. 5. The secretary or treasurer of every railroad company, any portion of whose road is in this state, shall, within the first ten days of October, annually, deliver to the comptroller a sworn statement of the number of shares of its stock, and the market value of each share, the amount and market value of its funded and floating debt, the amount of bonds issued by any town or city of the description mentioned in the twelfth section of chapter first of this title, when the avails of such bonds or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Nichols v. New Haven & Northampton Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1875
3Cited by1 opinion
- State v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891