Legal Opinion

Portland Dry Dock & Insurance v. Trustees of Portland

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided June 21, 1851PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error to the Jefferson Circuit. Debt. Case 16. Case staled, and of Q®urt Circuit

1Opinion of the Court

Jurge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

By the last section of the act of 1836, to incorporate the Portland Dry Dock and Insurance Company, (Sess. acts, 1835-6, p. 587, the said company was required to pay to the city of Louisville an annual tax of fifty cents on each hundred dollars of their capital stock. And as the capital was $100,000, required to be paid up before the company should be organized or proceed to the business authorized by the charter, this tax amounted to $500 annually. By the 7th section of an act of 1844, (Sess. acts, 1843-4, p. 222,) the Board of Trustees of the…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. City of Henrietta v. EustisTexas Supreme Court · 1894
  2. State v. Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co.Nevada Supreme Court · 1879
  3. Preston v. Sturgis Milling Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1910
  4. City of Lexington v. WilsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1904
  5. International Harvester Co. of America v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1914

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