R. R. Co. v. . Commissioners

The case presents the question whether the plaintiff company is liable to be assessed for state and county taxation upon the value of its corporate franchise and roadbed; and the facts set out in the complaint and answer, used as affidavits on the motion for an interlocutory injunction, and the only evidence in the case, are as follows:

The general assembly of Tennessee in February, 1852, passed an act incorporating the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio railroad company, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from the waters of the Atlantic to the Ohio river, traversing the states of North…