Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. City of Grand Rapids

Complainant’s bill was filed to restrain the city of Grand Rapids from collecting a tax levied upon several parcels of land, all of which were covered by tracks of the complainant’s railroad. As the law now stands, similar questions cannot hereafter arise, complainant’s claim being based on the law in force in 1901, which imposed a specific tax of per cent, upon the gross earnings of railroads, and relieved their property from other taxation, except such property as they should not actually occupy in the exercise of their franchises, and was not necessary or in use in the proper operation of…