Vaughan v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

Thie sole question involved on this appeal is whether' or not a foreign railroad corporation which was incorporated in the .state creating it long before the adoption of our present Constitution and which from about that time owned and operated a portion of one of its railroad lines located in this state and had also long sinci© complied with sections 570 and 841 of our statutes entitling it to “possess, control, maintain or operate” a railroad in this state, must pay the organization tax of one-tenth of one per. centum of its capital stock, as…