State ex rel. Pearson v. Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pike Circuit Court.—Eon. D. E. Eby, Judge. (1) The bridge in question comes under both classes of structure made taxable by section 7755 Revised Statutes 1889, to-wit: (a) A bridge owned by joint stock company; and (b) a bridge where a charge is made for crossing the same, namely a toll bridge.
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Appeal from Pike Circuit Court.—Eon. D. E. Eby, Judge. (1) The bridge in question comes under both classes of structure made taxable by section 7755 Revised Statutes 1889, to-wit: (a) A bridge owned by joint stock company; and (b) a bridge where a charge is made for crossing the same, namely a toll bridge. That this particular bridge is owned and controlled by a joint stock company, within the meaning o£ the statute, was determined and adjudicated by this court in State ex rel. v. Bridge Co., 109 Mo. 257. This doctrine is reiterated, and reaffirmed, by this court, in the same case, upon a…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
The statement of facts furnished by the learned aggregation of counsel representing plaintiff, appellant here, seems colorless and fair as far as it goes, and is adopted pro tanto. Thus:
‘ ‘ This is the suit for delinquent taxes for 1900, on a railroad bridge across the Mississippi river at Louisiana, Pike county, Missouri. The defendant, the Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad Company, is a Missouri railroad corporation, and owns a line of railroad, in-*529eluding so much of the bridge in controversy as is in the State of Missouri, from the middle of the Mississippi river, at the City of…
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