Smith v. Nashville
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Davidson County. W. K. McAlister, J.
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
This record raises the question of the liability of the city of Nashville for a privilege tax on its water-works under the revenue Act of 1887.
*466The case was before this Ooui-t on petition for certiorari and supersedeas at the December Term, 1887, and the opinion then delivered is reported in 2 Pickle, beginning at page 214.
The petition alleged the construction and maintenance of the water-works by the city in its corporate capacity, for the public good, and not as a private enterprise for pecuniary gain or profit, and this Court held that, in the absence of express statutory provision on the…
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