Keokuk & Western Railroad v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE MISSOURI. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of • Missouri for the county of Scotland, by the State, suing for the use of the collector of revenue for Scotland County, against the Keokuk and Western Railroad Company to charge the property then in its hands as owner with an alleged lien for state and county taxes levied on the property of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company for the year 1886. The…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE MISSOURI. This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of • Missouri for the county of Scotland, by the State, suing for the use of the collector of revenue for Scotland County, against the Keokuk and Western Railroad Company to charge the property then in its hands as owner with an alleged lien for state and county taxes levied on the property of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company for the year 1886. The Keokuk and Western Railroad Company, defendant, becamé the purchaser of the property of the corporation against which the tax…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The question in this case is whether the-defendant, the Keokuk and Western Railroad Company, was entitled to .the exemption of- its property from taxation contained in the original charter to the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company, of which road it is the successor in interest.(1) It will be observed that the constitutional provision upon which the State relies for the enforcement of this tax for the year 1886 was adopted in 1865, before the consolidation of the Alexandria and Bloomfield Company, under its changed name of .the Alexandria and Nebraska City Railroad Company, with the…
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